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Except that’s the opposite of how the 737-Max actually is. It’s more like they kept bolting on bigger and bigger engines until it had totally different aerodynamics.


Yeah, that doesn't sound like an XP service pack at all.

It's amusing that I got downvotes for someone else's analogy being bad.


It’s a bad analogy but maybe responding to the analogy in a way that doesn’t apply to the airplane problem came across as confusing and irrelevant.


Personally I don't think it's irrelevant to try to cut off an unhelpful analogy, those things sometimes act like black holes. But point taken.


Nah I get that, it was just ambiguous whether you were cutting it off or falling into the black hole, but maybe that’s just me :)


The black hole would be trying to elaborate a whole lot on top of a completely broken foundation, or trying to fix the analogy in intense detail when you should start from scratch, etc.

I just said one line about how that analogy didn't fit.


Theire should be after accident reclassifications to new planes.


What makes you think there isn’t a review process?

There is a process for “special certification review”, some of those end with changes (typically airworthiness directives); others validate the airplane as meeting certification and safe.

Lear 60, MU-2, DC-10, MD-11, ATR-72, R22/R44 helicopters, Piper Malibu, CE-441, and Bonanza have all undergone the SCR process and continue to fly having been validated as safe/conforming (some with changes to airframe or procedures)

To my knowledge, only the DC-6 and Constellation had their type certification revoked after in-service accidents.




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