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Re:Is my plane a 737 MAX? by stouset on Tuesday January 09, 2024 @01:35PM (#38929994)
I think you’re misunderstanding the comments. This was a problem, it needs to be investigated and fixed, but the overreaction to this is bordering on insanity.

Commercial aviation in the U.S. is still incomprehensibly safe. It is not getting measurably less safe. The 737 MAX line are not death traps.

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Re:Is my plane a 737 MAX? by flashback2199 on Tuesday January 09, 2024 @01:43PM (#38930114)
> the overreaction to this is bordering on insanity

Not an overreaction. Not bolting on a door on a brand new plane is past bordering into full-on insanity.

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Re:Is my plane a 737 MAX? by stouset on Tuesday January 09, 2024 @01:55PM (#38930273)
Mechanics routinely forget to bolt the wheels onto cars, which has caused and continues to cause actual traffic deaths.

Nobody floods into the comment sections on HN when this happens because people dying in cars is depressingly normal but planes are so unimaginably safe that a person hypothetically getting sucked out of a plane is strange and terrifying.

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