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Boeing 737 Max Aircraft Grounded in the U.S. and Dozens of Other Countries

posted by chromas on Thursday March 14 2019, @06:02AM   Printer-friendly

takyon writes:

U.S. Grounds Boeing Planes, After Days of Pressure

After days of mounting pressure, the United States grounded Boeing's 737 Max aircraft on Wednesday, reversing an earlier decision in which American regulators said the planes could keep flying after a deadly crash in Ethiopia.

The decision, announced by President Trump, followed determinations by safety regulators in some 42 countries to ban flights by the jets, which are now grounded worldwide. Pilots, flight attendants, consumers and politicians from both major parties had been agitating for the planes to be grounded in the United States. Despite the clamor, the Federal Aviation Administration had been resolute, saying on Tuesday that it had seen "no systemic performance issues" that would prompt it to halt flights of the jet.

That changed Wednesday when, in relatively quick succession, Canadian and American aviation authorities said they were grounding the planes after newly available satellite-tracking data suggested similarities between Sunday's crash in Ethiopia and one involving a Boeing 737 Max 8 in Indonesia in October.

Previously: Second 737 MAX8 Airplane Crash Reinforces Speculation on Flying System Problems

Related: Boeing 737 MAX 8 Could Enable $69 Trans-Atlantic Flights

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 14 2019, @06:38AM (5 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 14 2019, @06:38AM (#814091)

    Boeing! Software upgrade, to Windows 10, for Airy Forces One. No one would blame you.

  • (Score: 3, Funny) by c0lo on Thursday March 14 2019, @12:01PM (4 children)

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Thursday March 14 2019, @12:01PM (#814142) Journal

    On a second thought, don't. Just leak the IP address of AF1 to Russian hackers, much cheaper in terms of effort.

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    • (Score: 5, Insightful) by DannyB on Thursday March 14 2019, @01:19PM (2 children)

      by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Thursday March 14 2019, @01:19PM (#814169) Journal

      I would think the Russians could have he IP address of AF1 just by asking the right person and stroking their delicate ego.

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      • (Score: 3, Funny) by deadstick on Thursday March 14 2019, @01:38PM (1 child)

        by deadstick (5110) on Thursday March 14 2019, @01:38PM (#814178)

        The right person's reply would be something like "Somewhere on Andrews AFB, I guess".

        • (Score: 2) by DannyB on Thursday March 14 2019, @01:58PM

          by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Thursday March 14 2019, @01:58PM (#814194) Journal

          "I know someone who is really good with the cyber. He can get you this cyber thing. He can remotely let you in so you can roam around and find it by yourself. Then just let him know when you have found it and are done looking."

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    • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 14 2019, @04:45PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 14 2019, @04:45PM (#814295)

      Not at all. Windows 10 will crash my plane / autopilot when it force-restarts because of an update. The Russians would hold such information very closely at this time and do everything possible to secure AF1, as Trump is an extremely good puppet ally of Russia.