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Re:Crash: China Eastern B738 near Guangzhou on Mar 21st 2022 by GekkePrutser on Monday March 21, 2022 @09:46AM (#30754045)
No 737-800 is not max. It's just one of the longer NGs.

There's an even longer -900 too.

So whatever happened, it's safe to say it was not MCAS. I wonder what did happen though.. But no doubt they authorities will find this out in due course.

Some posted videos basically show it going almost vertically down :( RIP.

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Re:Crash: China Eastern B738 near Guangzhou on Mar 21st 2022 by yeeetz on Monday March 21, 2022 @08:50AM (#30753490)
The plane was delivered in 2014/2015 and isn't a MAX. Do you just make up and post whatever's on your mind?
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Re:Crash: China Eastern B738 near Guangzhou on Mar 21st 2022 by gruez on Monday March 21, 2022 @09:26AM (#30753847)
To be fair there were articles saying that the 737 max was being brought back under the name "737-8200", which is pretty similar to the "737-800"

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/jul/15/boeing-737-...

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Re:Crash: China Eastern B738 near Guangzhou on Mar 21st 2022 by throwaway0a5e on Monday March 21, 2022 @10:17AM (#30754401)
Making a reference to whatever related subject has a lot of mindshare is a pretty common format for low effort comments around here. It's just HN's high brow version of making an equally low effort quip about the front falling off.

It clearly gets a positive reception sufficiently more often than a negative one or people wouldn't do it.

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Re:Crash: China Eastern B738 near Guangzhou on Mar 21st 2022 by tomfanning on Monday March 21, 2022 @08:55AM (#30753541)
It would be better for everyone if this were deleted.
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Re:Crash: China Eastern B738 near Guangzhou on Mar 21st 2022 by the-dude on Monday March 21, 2022 @08:59AM (#30753580)
I stand corrected, I did not recall correctly.
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Re:Crash: China Eastern B738 near Guangzhou on Mar 21st 2022 by zethus on Monday March 21, 2022 @10:08AM (#30754286)
memory is a curious function
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Re:Crash: China Eastern B738 near Guangzhou on Mar 21st 2022 by ledauphin on Monday March 21, 2022 @08:42AM (#30753400)
no, a -800 is a NG but not a MAX.
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Re:Crash: China Eastern B738 near Guangzhou on Mar 21st 2022 by justsomehnguy on Monday March 21, 2022 @09:27AM (#30753860)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_737_Next_Generation#737...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_737_Next_Generation#Fur...

> In 2011, Boeing launched the 737 MAX, an updated and re-engined version of the 737NG

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Re:Crash: China Eastern B738 near Guangzhou on Mar 21st 2022 by Oberbaumbrucke on Monday March 21, 2022 @08:41AM (#30753391)
Did you just make that up?
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