Totally insane. Repeating the same errors as in the past and hoping for a better outcome... Only corruption can explain that...

The EU should refuse to allow such planes to enter their airspace.

This is absolutely frightening.

The 737 has had 14 major recertifications. The aircraft today looks/behaves nothing like the original from the 1960s.

The main motivation for recertifications comes from commercial pressure where if a aircraft is given a new number and not recertified, then the pilots have to be retrained.

Honestly, back when the 737 MAX debacle happened, a lot of consumers claimed that they would stop flying aircrafts if they ran into 737 MAXs. And I don't think it happened in enough numbers - or even enough to make news. Sales went through the roof, everything kept working.

Recertifications are very common. The issue really is is the aircraft is AS different and untested as the old MAXs, and I really can't see that happening again in the next decade or two atleast.

Until the next mass crash ...

A little off topic, but: by letting US frontier ai labs be responsible for safety checking their models, we're making the same mistake that the FAA made by delegating safety certificates to boeing. Even if ai companies and Boeing have an incentive to keep their products safe, they're balancing it against a profit motive and any single individual at the company will probably benefit more from getting shit done rather than slowing down for safety sake. Even if anthropic is doing a good job at safety right now (just as Boeing presumably was being responsible with their self-certifications at some point) letting a private corp be responsible for any kind of public safety is a structural problem.

All I read is that the US govt signs on off US export. I'd be surprised if there was not pressure on FAA to lower the bar.

Just to comprehend this a bit better - it sounds like the FAA had stripped Boeing of the ability to self-recertify and actually sent inspectors for the most recent certifications. After several successful certifications and what would appear, to the inspectors, to be real process improvements, they're now re-granting Boeing the ability to self-recertify when self-recertification is allowed?

This is well outside my knowledge domain so I'm not trying to make any statements on whether this was correct, but rather to better comprehend the change.

Who gave who a golden airplane ... totally worth it, for them at least.