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Re:How Qantas is bringing back Airbus A380s from the Califor... by reisse on Wednesday April 19, 2023 @05:19PM (#35633456)
737 MAX MCAS issue pale in comparison to 737 classic rudder issues (two crashes confirmed because of the issue, three crashes suspected, and a few more cases where pilots were able to overcome the plane). Yet it happened in the era without social networks and Internet news, so few people remember about it.
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Re:How Qantas is bringing back Airbus A380s from the Califor... by dsfyu404ed on Wednesday April 19, 2023 @06:36PM (#35634181)
>Yet it happened in the era without social networks and Internet news, so few people remember about it.

And the public's opinion of the air travel industry was different so hand wringing over it wasn't so fashionable.

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Re:How Qantas is bringing back Airbus A380s from the Califor... by LastTrain on Wednesday April 19, 2023 @09:44PM (#35635410)
I’m old and I remember it being all over the news and Johnny Carson making jokes about Boeing “BOING” in his monologue. There was no social network but we were ALL watching the same damn 3 channels.
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Re:How Qantas is bringing back Airbus A380s from the Califor... by CaptainZapp on Thursday April 20, 2023 @03:50AM (#35637427)
That's true.

Then again the 737s with rudder issues were not brand spanking new planes.

Without Boeing's negligence and corner cutting this never would have happened.

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