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Re:Ethiopian Airlines plane crash: No survivors among 157 on... by cjbprime on Sunday March 10, 2019 @11:34AM (#19352376)
I wonder whether those flights will happen on those planes. There are only a few hundred MAXs in existence, and now two new ones have failed. Grounding the fleet wouldn't feel like an overreaction to me.
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Re:Ethiopian Airlines plane crash: No survivors among 157 on... by StreamBright on Sunday March 10, 2019 @01:26PM (#19353019)
Absolutely. However, which group would you belong to later on:

- the one that avoided flying MAXs and it turned out to be something else

- the one that avoided flying MAXs and it turned out to be a problem with the MAX

- the one that did not avoid flying MAXs and it turned out to be something else

- the one that did not avoid flying MAXs and it turned out to be a problem with the MAX

I think it is much safer to be in the first two and potentially being labeled paranoid later on worst case.

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Re:Ethiopian Airlines plane crash: No survivors among 157 on... by cjbprime on Sunday March 10, 2019 @01:33PM (#19353065)
I'm not sure why you say "however" or think we disagree. Maybe you misread my "wouldn't feel like an overreaction" as "would feel like an overreaction"?

I agree with grounding the fleet, especially if it's the case that an MCAS software update was already being prepared but not yet deployed.

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Re:Ethiopian Airlines plane crash: No survivors among 157 on... by StreamBright on Monday March 11, 2019 @04:39AM (#19357503)
Yeah exactly that. :)
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Re:Ethiopian Airlines plane crash: No survivors among 157 on... by leesalminen on Sunday March 10, 2019 @12:45PM (#19352757)
Agreed. Debating booking a refundable ticket on another airline that doesn’t fly MAX in case of a grounding this week.
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Re:Ethiopian Airlines plane crash: No survivors among 157 on... by cjbprime on Sunday March 10, 2019 @11:38PM (#19356463)
Looks like China's grounded all of theirs now.
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