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You’re right, I was thinking of the grounding. “The Boeing 737 MAX passenger airliner was grounded worldwide between March 2019 and December 2020 – longer in m
by dahart 5y ago
You’re right, I was thinking of the grounding.
“The Boeing 737 MAX passenger airliner was grounded worldwide between March 2019 and December 2020 – longer in many jurisdictions – after 346 people died in two crashes, Lion Air Flight 610 on October 29, 2018, and Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 on March 10, 2019. The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) resisted grounding the aircraft until March 13, 2019, when it received evidence of accident similarities. By then, 51 other regulators had already grounded the plane,[2] and by March 18, 2019, all 387 aircraft in service were grounded.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_737_MAX_groundings https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_737_MAX_groundings
- jaywalk 5y agoIt's very important to note that nobody grounded the plane before the second accident, so it's not like the FAA was standing alone in allowing the plane to fly after the first accident. They get criticized for taking three days to ground the plane after the second accident, but you could also argue that the other regulators had a knee-jerk reaction without sufficient data.
- dahart 5y agoFair point. Yes, the FAA’s real problem happened long before the grounding. It was really failure to require a re-certification of the design changes, and avoid a grounding incident, and the crashes, in the first place.