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Care to elaborate? I’m pretty familiar with the issue, but not sure what through line you’re making


> The new variants are utterly different than their original, yet are still technically the same airframe.

This is what Boeing had in the 737MAX. It was a different aircraft, but it looked like the 737-800.


The MAX was under an amended type certification, so they were acknowledging the changes. Boeing didn’t follow their own rules regarding safety design (like redundancy on critical items identified on their hazard analysis)




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