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Re:China orders its airlines to suspend use of Boeing 737 Ma... by rsynnott on Monday March 11, 2019 @05:31AM (#19357692)
It may be even worse than that, because the A330 is a long-range plane. I’ve been on an 11 hour A330 flight. Many 737 flights are only a couple of hours.

Of course, given the small numbers of 737 MAXes, this may be s statistical fluke. But grounding it til the investigation is complete doesn’t seem crazy to me.

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Re:China orders its airlines to suspend use of Boeing 737 Ma... by khuey on Monday March 11, 2019 @06:03AM (#19357788)
Takeoff and landings are the most dangerous part of the flight though, so comparing based on number of flights may in fact be the salient metric.
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