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Re:Boeing wants FAA to exempt MAX 7 from safety rules to get... by wolverine876 on Friday January 05, 2024 @03:06PM (#38884120)
Boeing's main argument seems to be that, even if the pilot forgets, the overall risk isn't worth the remediation:

In its petition to the FAA, Boeing argues the breakup of the engine nacelle is “extremely improbable” and that an exemption will not reduce safety.

“The 737 MAX has been in service since 2017 and has accumulated over 6.5 million flight hours. In that time, there have been no reported cases of parts departing aircraft due to overheating of the engine nacelle inlet structure,” the filing states.

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Re:Boeing wants FAA to exempt MAX 7 from safety rules to get... by WesolyKubeczek on Friday January 05, 2024 @03:38PM (#38884565)
> “extremely improbable”

Read: happens at least twice a week

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Re:Boeing wants FAA to exempt MAX 7 from safety rules to get... by jbverschoor on Friday January 05, 2024 @03:14PM (#38884238)
Who forgot to file the reports?
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Re:Boeing wants FAA to exempt MAX 7 from safety rules to get... by falserum on Friday January 05, 2024 @03:25PM (#38884379)
Mail from pacific ocean floor is slow or it’s a separate case?
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Re:Boeing wants FAA to exempt MAX 7 from safety rules to get... by dtgriscom on Friday January 05, 2024 @05:06PM (#38885637)
> no reported cases of parts departing aircraft due to...

Wow, that's a great phrase. "No reported cases" is a serious weasel-phrase, and "parts departing aircraft" is much easier to take than "things falling off planes."

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Re:Boeing wants FAA to exempt MAX 7 from safety rules to get... by notatoad on Friday January 05, 2024 @07:01PM (#38886766)
"no reported cases" is a lot less of a weasel-phrase in an industry that has mandatory reporting of these things.
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Re:Boeing wants FAA to exempt MAX 7 from safety rules to get... by pi-e-sigma on Friday January 05, 2024 @08:41PM (#38887474)
No, it's not because it doesn't define who it would be reported to. So it could be not reported to FAA, or Boing, or a person responsible for this specific design or anybody really, perfectly shedding any responsibility whatsoever.
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Re:Boeing wants FAA to exempt MAX 7 from safety rules to get... by tim333 on Friday January 05, 2024 @08:33PM (#38887405)
A bit more info from a pilot on r/aviation

>I fly the MAX. That switch is left on all the time by accident. If it was a catastrophic issue we certainly would already know. https://www.reddit.com/r/aviation/comments/18z8mk6/737_max_d...

which I guess is reassuring in a way.

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