re: #142 Targetpractice

To be fair, various models of the 737 have been in service for decades with a fairly enviable safety record.

The problem has been in the last 2 decades, when the whole “We can save so much gov’t money by shifting safety inspections to the companies themselves!” deregulation has led to execs pushing for profitability over safety.

No, the real problem is that it’s physically impossible to keep using the 737 wing location on a fuselage of that diameter with the unavoidably-increased diameter of modern jet engines.

Admittedly, it passed testing only via regulatory capture, but it should have been stopped even before mock-up stage as theoretically not an option, and a clean-sheet replacement commenced instead!