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Amazingly, most of the certification process for this new and very different plane was based on grandfathered approvals for the original 737, almost exactly 50
by cmurf 7y ago
Amazingly, most of the certification process for this new and very different plane was based on grandfathered approvals for the original 737, almost exactly 50 years earlier.
That is an interesting claim about certification I haven't previously read.
- olliej 7y agoThe whole point of the 737-MAX was that it was a modified 737, and that’s why what would now be considered unsafe design features were allowed (reducing development costs and time to fly), and why MCAS existed: to hide that it was a new aircraft. Every design decision in the 737-max is geared towards a plane that appeared to be no different from a 737 to pilots or regulators.