Originally Posted by
RJSAviator76
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I may be a bit of a conspiracy theorist here, but anyone remember the hardover rudder problem that plagued earlier 737's? Did we ground the fleet over it? Did we de-certify or purposefully drag out the certifications of other variants?
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True, the 73's had the NTSB stumped for a while (COS & PIT), but that was a very different time.
These days the media just can't wait for an aviation/airline related story to sensationalize and whip the public into a frothy screaming mess.
Heck I just saw news article covering a return to gate by AAL for a pax that was farting too much.
Life has now become Art. We are living the movie 'Idiocracy'. Any hickup and the public will grab the pitchforks and rakes.