Re:US refuses to ground Boeing 737 Max
by em3rgent0rdr on Wednesday March 13, 2019 @03:41AM
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There is risk most any human activity. Your prudent thing would result in suspending any beneficial activity with any possible risk. The a prudent thing would be to err on the side of still receiving the benefits of 737 air travel.
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Nonsense. This plane right now has two out of about four hundred that crashed, which for a new plane is more than enough reason to hit the 'pause' button for a bit until we know or least think we know what went wrong.
Thinking like that does not result in 'suspending any beneficial activity with any possible risk', it just suspends this activity with a roughly 0.5% risk of incidence until the causes are clear.
There are plenty of other aircraft in the world, also many non-Max 737's.
Re:US refuses to ground Boeing 737 Max
by isostatic on Wednesday March 13, 2019 @03:51AM
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Nobody is talking about ground the 737 - a very safe plane used thousands of times a day
This is the 737-max, a new plane with very little history, barely used, and had been involved in two crashes with similar circumstances in the last 6 months.