On: Boeing Built Deadly Assumptions into 737 Max, Blind to a Late Design Change

[CydeWeys]

The FAA needs to grow a pair and declare this type certification and all other certifications older than ~30 years EOLed. That doesn't mean you can't continue operating those planes, it just means you can't retrofit some changes onto a deeply legacy model and still call it the same type.

[basicplus2 → CydeWeys]

I think its not about retrofitting and more about retrofitting (engines in this case) in the wrong place.

[quink → CydeWeys]

Say what now? It sounds like you want the FAA to revoke the A320 type certificate?

[CydeWeys → quink]

Yes. The A320neo should be the last new design allowed under the same certification. They'll be forced to re-certify whatever they do next anyway, so they won't have to try to shoehorn things into the older design like Boeing did with the 737.

[quink → CydeWeys]

But Airbus shoehorned the same thing - a CFM LEAP - into an older design, just like Boeing did.

It's not the case that they won't have to try, they already did it years ago.