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  • #91
    As usual, mumbo jumbo gobbledygook from Germany.

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    • #92
      Originally posted by TeeVee View Post
      for those that dont wanna read the whole thing, here is a poignant excerpt

      "At the end of a flight from Rio de Janeiro to Paris, a Varig Boeing 707 made an emergency landing in a field as it approached Orly airport. A cigarette had burned through the lavatory trash can and black smoke was billowing through the passenger cabin, asphyxiating many passengers before the airplane was even on the ground. 123 people died. Varig sued the FAA because, by law, the trash bin should have contained the fire. The FAA certified the jetliner even though the airplane failed to meet that requirement.

      When the Supreme Court heard the case, all nine justices agreed that the burden falls on the regulated, in this case Boeing, to follow the law. When the FAA decides what it will and will not inspect, it is “exercising discretionary regulatory authority of the most basic kind,” the high court ruled."


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      • #93
        And this has some relevance to this thread?

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        • #94
          Originally posted by BoeingBobby View Post
          And this has some relevance to this thread?
          No, but:

          Gilberto Araujo Da Silva (captain, born 11/12/23, 49 years old, 17,959 flight hours including 4642 out of 707, survived): He died on January 30, 1979 in the disappearance of the Boeing 707-323C PP-VLU from the same company.
          PP-VLU was never found. Could have been catastrophic engine failure...

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