From WSJopinion: If the standard keeping Boeing’s 737 MAX out of the air were applied to every aircraft, we might not have air travel, writes HolmanJenkins
When congressional hearings were inaugurated, they were supposed to be information-seeking exercises. Not much information seeking went on at last week’s hearings on the Boeing 737 MAX. Senators gave speeches deploring plane crashes. Even when they asked questions, they seldom waited for answers. And if any legislation results, it will surely be written by staffers based on agendas long ago hashed out.
All in all, a display of institutional decadence not unlike the one that seems to have afflicted Boeing and the Federal Aviation...
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