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  • but because Boeing are pushing the envelope of a jet with a basic design which is well over 50 years old.

    In short, it is much cheaper to improve/modify an existing plane design than to spend billions on designing a brand new aircraft from scratch.

  • Yep. Same with the type approval, it's all about money. And stretching aircraft = more passengers = more fatalities when it does go wrong. Lion Air was the deadliest 737 crash ever.

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