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Old Mar 12, 2019, 4:55 pm
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Originally Posted by STS-134

Yeah but a 3rd crash while they're looking for the cause of the 2nd would be how many times worse? And something like this HAS happened before (and it was with the only other aircraft model, the De Havilland Comet, to have 2 fatal crashes so soon after being released, and cost an additional 21 lives).
Um, merely pointing out simple math @:-)

We armchair quarterbacks don't have the info needed to make a determination, but IMHO grounding MAXes may just be the prudent thing to do right now. Sadly, it's hard to trust CEOs these days
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