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Re:Alaska Airlines grounds Boeing 737 Max 9 planes after mid... by bambax on Saturday January 06, 2024 @05:52AM (#38890340)
> lack of effective oversight

Regulators getting cozy with the people they're supposed to regulate happens in every industry, in every country, and... understandably so. Those are people who have the same expertise, same training, who work together all their life.

It may be one of the most difficult problems to solve.

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Re:Alaska Airlines grounds Boeing 737 Max 9 planes after mid... by saiya-jin on Saturday January 06, 2024 @07:50AM (#38891014)
Its not "getting cozy", its good old felony called corruption. You can tackle that, its not that hard if done correctly. But one needs to avoid conflict of interest from all angles
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Re:Alaska Airlines grounds Boeing 737 Max 9 planes after mid... by TaylorAlexander on Saturday January 06, 2024 @06:03AM (#38890390)
I guess the question I would have is: to what degree is this happening in the US versus other places like Europe or China, and what can we learn by examining this in those places.
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Re:Alaska Airlines grounds Boeing 737 Max 9 planes after mid... by Dalewyn on Saturday January 06, 2024 @06:13AM (#38890446)
I would hope FAA learned their lesson after being (rightfully!) publicly humiliated by Trump doing their job better and proceeding to lose their prestige as the leading authority of aviation authorities.

But stupider things have happened.

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Re:Alaska Airlines grounds Boeing 737 Max 9 planes after mid... by midasuni on Saturday January 06, 2024 @06:38AM (#38890597)
Are you taking about the executive orders trump signed that reduced FAA oversight?

https://www.forbes.com/sites/marisagarcia/2019/03/18/did-tru...

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Re:Alaska Airlines grounds Boeing 737 Max 9 planes after mid... by atoav on Saturday January 06, 2024 @07:37AM (#38890939)
[citation needed]
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