airlines would suffer massively if any type is grounded It's been done before, but IIRC not recently. Sometimes you have to slap a manufacturer and an operator

airlines would suffer massively if any type is grounded It's been done before, but IIRC not recently. Sometimes you have to slap a manufacturer and an operator with a gigantic clue-by-four in order to get them to take things seriously. In 1979, after a crash where 271 people were killed, all DC-10s were grounded for about 5 weeks. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonnell_Douglas_DC-10#American_Airlines_Flight_191 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonnell_Douglas_DC-10#Americ...