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Re:Aviation Safety Whistleblower Report on 737 Max [pdf] by netjiro on Wednesday December 15, 2021 @03:11AM (#29563238)
> Why is the Dreamliner acceptable and the MAX is not?

I remember [1?] hearing that Emirates threatened refusing 777s & 787s from one of Boeing's plants due to repeated quality control issues. Have not tracked the issue.

> 180 separate, independent regulators colluded to protect

Not necessarily. But if 180 _independent_ bodies were effectively independent, one of them would probably have found issues with the max. But they are not operating effectively independent.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/emirates-doubts-fi...

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Re:Aviation Safety Whistleblower Report on 737 Max [pdf] by jim-jim-jim on Wednesday December 15, 2021 @06:56AM (#29564739)
The plant with the quality control issues is the non-unionized one.
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Re:Aviation Safety Whistleblower Report on 737 Max [pdf] by 0xy on Wednesday December 15, 2021 @03:23AM (#29563316)
The MAX (before design updates and re-certification) has a fatal crash rate of 3.08 per million. Meanwhile 11.9 per 100,000 people die in car crashes.

The MAX, before being fixed, was significantly safer than a car.

Do you refuse to get in a car, since it's substantially more deadly than a MAX?

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