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The FAA will never ban it because politically its untenable in the US, the only thing that could kill the Max off would be if another big regulator such as EASA refused to let the Max into their airspace.

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> FAA will never ban it because politically its untenable in the US

What are you basing this on?

Common sense

> common sense

How do you think we would judge someone using common sense to work out a problem in computing? Because saying the FAA is existentially deferential to Boeing is a "series of tubes" analog.

Boeing is basically an extension of .gov

So it'd be .gov.boeing?

No, boeing.gov, but rhetorically.

Another poster above described it but Boeing managed to lobby congress into passing a law that basically says they don’t have to add a sensor that the FAA required them to.

They could refuse to certify any new MAX planes. Grandfathering only existing planes if they are thoroughly and independently inspected.

Need a pilot strike until it's banned

Or some combined major crashes on US soil?

And EASA, which is also politically controlled, will not do it because the US government pressure.

it works the same way the other way around no? airbus planes are still flying in the US even though they are currently eating boeing's lunch.

Are they eating Boeing's lunch? Do you mean in terms of quality/safety, or economically/financially?

what do you mean? There is no equivalency here though in terms of safety issues.

No, that's absolutely not true. They can and have grounded entire aircraft lines.

There's literally no reason to ban the aircraft.

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