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Re:FAA grounds 171 Boeing planes after mid-air blowout by epolanski on Saturday January 06, 2024 @06:18PM (#38896597)
It literally killed hundreds of people by pretending to be the same plane.
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Re:FAA grounds 171 Boeing planes after mid-air blowout by VBprogrammer on Sunday January 07, 2024 @04:59AM (#38899935)
This is a good tabloid take but I don't believe it's accurate. It wasn't pretending to be the same plane - it was pretending to be any aircraft with certifiable flight characteristics, particularly control forces on approach to the stall.

Indeed there is no requirement for aircraft with the same training / type certificate to handle identically. For example the whole CitationJet class from the Mustang to the CJ4.

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