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by wtf42 2660 days ago
BBC says it's the same modification of Boeing 737 MAX-8 as in Lion Airlines crash and both crashes happened a few minutes after take-off.

So we have two crashes of brand new planes of a new 737 modification over half a year, wow!

If these crashes have the same reasons (it seems so) then FAA would probably force Boeing to recall these new planes (350 of them, not so much). And Boeing might even lose some of pre-order contracts (~5000 planes).

How many other hidden problems like MCAS does this plane have? Last time two crashes over half a year for a new plane modification happened in 1965 with Boeing 727, but that was a completely new plane design.