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madaboutharry

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2. They should just cut their losses and scrap the production all together.

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Fri Apr 5, 2019, 05:23 PM

Apr 2019

The public is going to resist getting on this plane. It is going to end up like the Corvair, which Ralph Nader lambasted in his book Unsafe at any Speed, and the Pinto.

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Boeing to cut 737 Max production beginning in mid-April [View all] mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2019 OP

What responsible airline would buy one of these things? SunSeeker Apr 2019 #1

They should just cut their losses and scrap the production all together. madaboutharry Apr 2019 #2

Agreed Sherman A1 Apr 2019 #5

Or they could, I don't know, spend the money and properly train pilots on how to use these planes. Initech Apr 2019 #15

I don't want to ever fly on one of those. I don't believe it's the software. dem4decades Apr 2019 #3

You are correct Sherman A1 Apr 2019 #4

I don't agree that it is necesarily a bad design, though they definitely have issues, and I believe still_one Apr 2019 #8

I think the aircraft could be returned to service Sgent Apr 2019 #9

Barring any major design flaw as you mentioned, I think it will be very difficult to convince a lot still_one Apr 2019 #10

I've heard that tRumps government shutdown added to the problem that boeing is going through yaesu Apr 2019 #6

After the crash in Indonesia, I believe Boeing figured out what was wrong and were trying to certify SFnomad Apr 2019 #12

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I'm sure there will be found multiple issues contributing to these crashes discntnt_irny_srcsm Apr 2019 #13

Thoughts and prayers are meaningless . . . Aussie105 Apr 2019 #14