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Re:The McDonnell Douglas-Boeing merger led to the 737 Max cr... by bwat49 on Monday January 06, 2020 @05:00PM (#21973888)
> Can't you also plausibly in a similar spirit argue for the point that the regulations about retraining pilots were responsible for the 737 MAX disaster?

I don't think that's a great argument, pilots needing to be trained/certified for a significantly different plane is a pretty sane regulation. Would you feel comfortable flying in a plane that the pilot was never trained on?

Also, I would argue that the ultimate cause of this disaster is that the Pilots were not adequately trained on how the MCAS system works. This only further supports this kind of regulation being important.

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Re:The McDonnell Douglas-Boeing merger led to the 737 Max cr... by quicklyfrozen on Monday January 06, 2020 @07:31PM (#21975295)
As an outsider, it seems like regulation led them (or the airlines really) down a path of avoiding retraining at all costs, while it seems plausible that some sort of cost effective retraining for a plane that still was substantially similar to predecessors should have been possible.
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