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"They were concerned about the safety of their fucking stock price" does pretty much encapsulate it. The issue here is that if a COMAC jet crashed there would be a show trial and an execution, it might not be the responsible party, but heads would roll. In the US nothing will happen.

Granted this poll is now nearly a decade old, but apparently frequent fliers would seem to disagree: https://thehill.com/policy/transportation/256026-poll-87-percent-of-frequent-flyers-unhappy-with-tsa/ It is interesting how much post back there was when the FAA wanted to amend Part 380 Public...

So going back to regularly capture, no I do not think the AFA-CWA is going to support that and neither will the FAA as a result.

I think it is fair to say that Boeing and the FAA are a textbook example of regulatory capture. With no competing American company it is in the interest of the regime to support Boeing and in the interest of Boeing to support the regime.

They just can't get a break: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13174293/United-Boeing-737-Max-Houston-runway-grass.html

The curious question is what part of the US population is supporting this?

What classifications of control arrangements were you thinking?

Anyone every flown into 46U or own a hanger there?

Granted the Max is a fairly tortured design, but much of this seems to be quality control now?

Would be interesting to see if different business jets have very different accident rates. Though it would be hard to compare them.

Not being an engineer, I would have to ask is a few ounces of acetone peroxide could even down an airliner?

Also, apparently he told this to a flight attendant, not the TSA. While this type of highjacking seems a bit passé now, this would be a pretty typical start to a highjacking fifty or sixty years ago before directing the plane to Havana or Tripoli. Playing "devil's advocate" here it is possible...

Perhaps I conflated those two settings then.

True, but in a smoke filled cabin to crawl through the tailbone baggage door to escape, pretty level headed!

That is ironic that the Boeing board wants their executives flying on Bombardier aircraft for safety: https://www.wsj.com/business/airlines/boeing-ceo-private-jets-return-to-office-9bee2035 Surprised someone is not trying to make more out of this.

"The red alignment marks on the throttle lever spindle and lever arm were consistent with an IDLE throttle position." I think that is pretty close to the speculation here? "After the airplane came to rest, the cabin attendant stated that she identified that the cabin and emergency exits were...

It is a cool story, but begs credulity, I am fairly sure you would notice the aircraft type before boarding. To the point though, the sad reality is that Boeing just does not care that much, it can still fill its order books and any airline cancelling a 737-Max order to get a A321 is going to...

So this is a bit obvious, but it will be an interesting shift in aviation and a possible end to the idea of an uncontrolled airport.

So I did go down to look at the economy seats: