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Grounding aircraft types when there is a significant airworthiness concern has been a phenomenon from the very beginning of commercial jet aviation during the 1950s. The pioneering DeHavilland Comet, the very first jet airliner, suffered ironically similar failures of the pressurized cabin, albiet more serious than the pictured incident. Just like the current article, airlines at the time voluntarily grounded their Comet fleets in 1954.

The only difference is an uptick in risk aversion. It took multiple serious incidents to trigger the grounding of the comet, but here we see grounding after one moderate incident. Then again, the greedy and selfish decision by Boeing executives to install only a single angle of attack sensor without redundancy as a cost cutting measure, which caused fatal crashes when paired with poorly designed software - on this very model, I believe - took multiple fatal crashes before a grounding occurred.