Originally Posted by
baseball
Well, since you said the "C" word..."congress."....Lets put the max exclusively in DCA when it returns to service. That way we can give congress a chance to weigh in on it and see how they feel about it.
Even after the second Ethiopian crash, DOT Sec Elaine Chao and her staff flew a SWA MAX8 from AUS-DCA, in yet another protective overdrive mode to show the world they thought the plane is just fine. The same way her predecessor in the 90s (Frederic Pena) stood at the Valujet crash site in the Everglades and stated, “I’ve flown on Valujet, Valujet is a safe airline, as is our entire aviation system.” Literally standing on top of the crash site.
Make no mistake, the MAX grounding by the FAA was because of world wide pressure from other regulatory authorities, and how the FAA should not be the lone wolf still allowing the MAX to fly.