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		paulpauper on April 17, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Boeing whistleblower says 787 fleet should be grou... Yeah, it is easy to lose perspective of how safe air travel is today compared to even as recently as the '90s. See for example the 737 rudder jams, in which people died in multiple incidents during the '90s, yet for some reason it got much less media coverage https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_737_rudder_issues

asmithmd1 on April 17, 2024 [–]

Because Boeing did not actively try to hide the design flaw they knew about as they did with the 737 Max

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