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Boeing's upgraded 737 MAX completes first flight with media onboard:
DALLAS (Reuters) - Boeing Co's 737 MAX staged its first post-grounding flight with media on board on Wednesday, as carriers seek to demonstrate to passengers that the redesigned jet is safe after a 20-month safety ban.
[...] Wednesday's American Airlines 737 MAX flight was a 45-minute hop from Dallas, Texas, to Tulsa, Oklahoma. It comes weeks before the first commercial passenger flight on Dec. 29, and is part of a public relations effort to allay any concerns about the aircraft.
Boeing's best-selling jet was grounded in March 2019 after two crashes in five months killed a combined 346 people, marking the industry's worst safety crisis in decades and undermining U.S. aviation regulatory leadership.
Wednesday's flight marked the first time anyone besides regulators and industry personnel flew on the MAX since the grounding, which ignited investigations focusing on software that overwhelmed pilots.
The mood on Wednesday's flight, which included a Reuters reporter, was subdued. Some passengers mingled and chatted before landing, when applause broke out.
[...] Boeing is bracing for intense publicity from even routine glitches by manning a 24-hour "situation room" to monitor every MAX flight globally, and has briefed some industry commentators on details on the return to service, industry sources said.
"We are continuing to work closely with global regulators and our customers to safely return the fleet to commercial service," a Boeing spokesman said.
[...] In an example of how airlines have begun to soft-pedal references to the MAX brand, the safety cards on Wednesday's flight omitted the "MAX" name and just said "737."
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 03 2020, @06:10PM (2 children)
Just like whoever marked this thread as "Offtopic."
(Score: 0, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 03 2020, @07:45PM (1 child)
There it goes again, that continuing lack of curiosity about clearly compromised computer systems by what are allegedly nerd-centric places. How many articles did you see about the election four years ago being hooked by foreign agents and ne're-do-wells? But not a squeak, this time. In fact, they bury the story, just like this thread. Just like the post above.
Isn't anybody interested in exactly how the 737-MAX software was un-finished and covered-up? Isn't anybody curious about Dominion?
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Friday December 04 2020, @03:36AM
Yes, this ^.
I've listened to hours of testimony, in Penna, Nevada, and Michigan. The recurring theme is, Dominion has a direct ancestry to manipulated elections in South America. Multiple persons have testified that with Dominion and related machines, can access those machines for the purpose of "flipping" votes. Giuliani and his colonel friend have asked repeatedly that forensic analysis be performed on Dominion machines - but I've not yet seen any forensics being performed. I've not seen a single headline that machines have been selected for forensic analysis.
If those forensics come back with clear indications that they were NOT manipulated, Trump loses all the wind from his sails. If those forensics come back with clear indications that votes were flipped by the hundreds of thousands, the legislatures in each state can take action as they see appropriate.
But - apparently, no one wants to see the results of any forensics examinations. Are we afraid of the truth?
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