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Online travel agent allows customers to filter out Boeing 737 Max planes (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Online travel agent allows customers to filter out Boeing 737 Max planes::Kayak customers can exclude Max 9 aircraft after cabin panel blowout on Alaska Airlines flight

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 9 months ago (8 children)

A bit of clickbait. Yes they've added the option to filter out 737 Max 9, but also a bunch of older Boeing and Airbus planes

I just checked this myself:

[–] [email protected] 22 points 9 months ago (4 children)

The last few incidents with the MAX series has me on edge with them. I fly planes myself (GA) and am an aviation geek. It's only 3 incidents but it seems like they rushed the MAX out too quickly to compete with Airbus. I could be really wrong.

The MAX 8 series was the one where they had additional software to correct the climb and this caused two accidents of total loss in passenger planes Lion Air Flight 610 and Ethiopians Flight 302.

Between March 2017 and March 2019, the global fleet of 387 aircraft operated 500,000 flights and experienced two fatal crashes, having a fatal accident rate of four accidents per million flights, whereas the previous Boeing 737 generations averaged 0.2 fatal accidents per million flights.

Then we have the MAX 9 that had a door blow off because of a missing door plug. Thankfully, no deaths and only minor injuries.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I have a flight in a MAX 7 in a couple of weeks. 🙃

That plane hasn't even been certified. I guess Aeromexico got a good deal on planes that were supposed to be delivered to Southwest

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

For what it's worth... Neither the FAA nor ICAO certify Boeing... Boeing certifies themselves!

In all honesty, you should be good to go. FAA and aviation companies have made the required changes and updates.

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