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Old Mar 12, 2019, 6:58 pm
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Originally Posted by SouthernCross


Absolutely criminal. At this point AA/WN/CA/UA are simply saying they’re too macho to ground their aircraft. The FAA needs to wake up and put a stop to this.
Stunning arrogance from the FAA and North American airlines. If this had been an Airbus plane or North American airline it would've been grounded 24 hours ago.

It may be a precautionary and ultimately unnecessary decision but it's one the FAA simply has to make if it cares at all about public safety profits be damned, especially when they know they need to so a software patch and it isn't available yet...
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