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<div>I would think that "most customers requirements" would include not falling out of the sky.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div>
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On Friday, March 29, 2019, 5:10:40 PM PDT, Rick Moen <rick@linuxmafia.com> wrote:
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<div>I wrote:<br clear="none"><br clear="none">> This is as good an opportunity as any for me to correct a small error I<br clear="none">> made in the prior post. I said Boeing 'generously allowed as how<br clear="none">> they'll do that _plus_ they'll throw in the $2.50-cost, probably<br clear="none">> $5,000-priced 'disagree light' as free retrofits'. That is incorrect.<br clear="none">> They did not offer retrofits at all. They said the 'disagree light'<br clear="none">> would be thrown in for free on _future_ 737 MAX airframes.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">[News sources are giving inconsistent information on the<br clear="none">future-shipments vs. free-retrofit detail. See footnote 2.]<br clear="none"><br clear="none">As it turns out, my cynicism was insufficient to the situation.<br clear="none">_Not_ $5,000, but rather $80,000. Good grief! Or, as Marvel's Luke<br clear="none">Cage puts it, 'Sweet Christmas!'<br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none"> A U.S. airline source said that feature [the 'disagree light'[1]] would<br clear="none"> cost roughly $80,000 extra on a plane with a list price of about $120<br clear="none"> million.<br clear="none"><br clear="none"> On Friday, Boeing issued a new statement, saying: "All Boeing<br clear="none"> airplanes are certified and delivered to the highest levels of safety<br clear="none"> consistent with industry standards. Airplanes are delivered with a<br clear="none"> baseline configuration, which includes a standard set of flight deck<br clear="none"> displays and alerts, crew procedures and training materials that meet<br clear="none"><div> industry safety norms and <br></div><div> most customer requirements. </div></div>
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