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It's not a Max, but it's extremely clear that the 737 is an outdated aircraft family. It's not directly relevant to this crash, probably, but it makes me a bit
by tormeh 5y ago
It's not a Max, but it's extremely clear that the 737 is an outdated aircraft family. It's not directly relevant to this crash, probably, but it makes me a bit sad that we can't find our way out of this kind of local minimum.
- kube-system 5y agoThe 737-800 was launched in 1994, which is not old at all by aircraft standards. And it is in the top 5 lowest crash rates of any airliner.
- tormeh 5y agoThe 737 family is from 1967, so it's fairly old.
- avh02 5y agoand some cars are fairly old too (pick any long-running somewhat-consistent model for a fair analogy), but they've changed since inception to be safer, more efficient, more reliable, etc. (minus the max, that's shoehorning something new to an old family) Simply saying the family is old does not do it justice. It's possible for some "old" setup to continue to be effective even if other things change.