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What's the Vegas line on when the plane will be flying again? Boeing says their software update is almost ready. However, I find it difficult to believe that
by thinkcontext 7y ago
What's the Vegas line on when the plane will be flying again? Boeing says their software update is almost ready. However, I find it difficult to believe that it should fly until after investigations of the 2 crashes are complete and the results from them are used to re-examine the design. That would take a significant amount of time.
Then there's the political dimension. Let's say there are Congressional hearings ongoing that are ripping apart the FAA to figure out if they delegated too much and why they missed stuff. Who would want to fly on a plane undergoing that kind of scrutiny?
There's also the possibility that the FAA would unground the plane but other countries do not. Usually, much of the rest of the world just trusts the FAA, this is likely to not be the case here. Even if it was ungrounded in the US, who would want to fly on a plane if its not approved to fly in Europe?
- tigershark 7y agoRegardless of the approvals for sure I won’t fly on it. Life is too precious to waste it on a flying death machine.
- newsoul2019 7y agoHow about riding in a car? Statistically much more risky.
- tigershark 7y agoI don’t think so. 2 total losses over 350 aircrafts in 5 month. In a year, rounding per defect, you have 1% of possibility to lose a 737 max. I don’t know the exact numbers but I seriously doubt that 1% of all the people that drive on a car are dead every year.