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by netjiro 1650 days ago
> Why is the Dreamliner acceptable and the MAX is not?

I remember [1?] hearing that Emirates threatened refusing 777s & 787s from one of Boeing's plants due to repeated quality control issues. Have not tracked the issue.

> 180 separate, independent regulators colluded to protect

Not necessarily. But if 180 _independent_ bodies were effectively independent, one of them would probably have found issues with the max. But they are not operating effectively independent.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/emirates-doubts-fi...
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jim-jim-jim 1650 days ago
The plant with the quality control issues is the non-unionized one.
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0xy 1650 days ago
The MAX (before design updates and re-certification) has a fatal crash rate of 3.08 per million. Meanwhile 11.9 per 100,000 people die in car crashes.

The MAX, before being fixed, was significantly safer than a car.

Do you refuse to get in a car, since it's substantially more deadly than a MAX?

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