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This advice describes how pernicious corruption and incompetency are. Instead of insisting on mechanisms to improve competency and trust, you're insisting the spread of distrust is the best course of action.

It will be interesting to see whether this aircraft is recertified under substantially similar conditions by EASA, et al.

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To having a corrupt system is a tragedy

Trusting a corrupt system is a comedy

But you don't doubt that the vaccines are safe, right? After all, the FDA told us so!

Are they actually certifying it themselves this time? It is normally enough to pass certification in one country.

Yes. The four main players are Transport Canada, EASA, China and I believe South Africa. Each is refusing to take the FAA certification at its word. Had the FAA been running the program, they would have been up ages ago but the other regulators are being considerably more strict. Source: I work in aviation with airlines who operate the Max

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