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Singapore temporarily suspends Boeing 737 Max into and out of its airports

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Re: Singapore temporarily suspends Boeing 737 Max into and out of its airports

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Multiple eye witness reports have the 737 trailing smoke and debris and making unusual sounds before impact [1]. That's not the sort of report one would expect if an otherwise intact aircraft flew into terrain due to some flaw with MCAS. [1] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-ethiopia-airplane-witness...

My neighbor flys 737 s for a major us airline and he said he was told failure was due to a bomb. Why is this being downvoted?

Because you are anonymous quoting a second anonymous party who had an unknown tell him it might have been the thing every accident is blamed on early on but it almost never is actually that thing? Also, that thing is heavily used by politicians for fearmongering. Do you understand now the heavy downvoting?

Re: Singapore temporarily suspends Boeing 737 Max into and out of its airports

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post #9

Multiple eye witness reports have the 737 trailing smoke and debris and making unusual sounds before impact [1]. That's not the sort of report one would expect if an otherwise intact aircraft flew into terrain due to some flaw with MCAS. [1] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-ethiopia-airplane-witness...

My neighbor flys 737 s for a major us airline and he said he was told failure was due to a bomb. Why is this being downvoted?

Yes, this seems quite possible and fits well but it's interesting the media is not commenting on this. Or a fire in the cargo.

But, you'd think the pilot would have said something more dramatic than "difficulties" if true.

"The pilot of the plane reported difficulties and asked to turn back, according to the airline’s CEO Tewolde GebreMariam."

The downvotes is because HN can't question the media, they have been fed the BOEING 737 MAX hardware/software story and have to stick with it. It's hard to think critically if it's outside the mainstream. Even though we've seen these hysterias before aka accelerators getting stuck.

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