gregjrichards
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Thank you for this.
If both planes crashed because they lacked the 2 safety features, I think that would be absolutely criminal. Add-ons that are essential to prevent crashes can hardly be treated as optional extras IMO. It's not as if we're talking about adding an optional extra that would be "nice to have".
To me, this is really starting to look "dirty". I'd be more than unhappy if I were a family member.
From Airliners I understand one of these upgrades cost $100,000 which a budget airline for example is not going to be able to afford to add on if it wasn’t deemed to be essential.
What a shame that Boeing offers these safety features as an upgrade! Shouldn’t all safety features be automatically included on the build of a plane? Include it in the original estimate of the cost, not as an optional upgrade.
One factor that strikes me as coincidence is that both crashes have been in foreign countries. What are they doing different than other countries?
Can we find out what countries, if any, bought the planes with the upgrade safety features?
I wish this was easy to find out I don’t know if customers could find out by contacting the airline they are flying with. The big question for me is what happens to the planes already built if it flies again can these safety upgrades be retrofitted. I still would not fly this plane regardless of what upgrades it has I have lost confidence in the safety of it.