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Re:China orders its airlines to suspend use of Boeing 737 Ma... by toephu2 on Monday March 11, 2019 @04:18AM (#19357434)
Why? Because 2 737s went down in the past few years? Do you know how many successful flights have been completed in the past few years? Would you rather drive? do you know how many people die in car accidents everyday? Over 3000. But it doesn't make the news because by definition it isn't new, it happens every day.
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Re:China orders its airlines to suspend use of Boeing 737 Ma... by richardknop on Monday March 11, 2019 @06:40AM (#19357927)
> Why? Because 2 737s went down in the past few years?

In last 6 months, to be more factual.

2 brand new aircraft of the latest model went down shortly after take off in less than 6 months. That is not normal and a proper investigation needs to take place. Until the investigation is done and it is proven that both of these crashes where just freak incidents and not caused by design flaw of the plane the planes should be grounded.

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Re:China orders its airlines to suspend use of Boeing 737 Ma... by piva00 on Monday March 11, 2019 @06:30AM (#19357892)
Like other commenters added: it's not the 737 that has been flying for 4+ decades, this is a new update to the 737 that has been flying for less than 2 years, this version has had 2 catastrophic accidents since its first delivery on May 2017.

Flying is safe because we had the time to learn from past accidents and create safeguards around their failures, this could be a new kind of failure we haven't been prepared for and if so there is a potential for risks higher than the usual.

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Re:China orders its airlines to suspend use of Boeing 737 Ma... by markdown on Monday March 11, 2019 @05:02AM (#19357571)
> Because 2 737s went down in the past few years?

Because 2 brand new 737s went down in the past 6 months and at least one of them was at least partially due to software.

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Re:China orders its airlines to suspend use of Boeing 737 Ma... by magpi3 on Monday March 11, 2019 @06:22AM (#19357857)
If a specific car make and model was presumably more prone to automobile accidents people would have the same reaction towards it.
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Re:China orders its airlines to suspend use of Boeing 737 Ma... by rsynnott on Monday March 11, 2019 @05:26AM (#19357676)
The point is that two of this currentlt rather rare 737 version went down in a year or so, for reasons which might be related. Up to you, of course, but personally I might opt for a 737-800 or A32x until the investigation is concluded. Both are plentiful.
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Re:China orders its airlines to suspend use of Boeing 737 Ma... by thatswrong0 on Monday March 11, 2019 @03:40PM (#19362092)
2 complete hull losses out of 350 is pretty unacceptable to me.
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