Russia announces plan to ground all Boeing 737s in the country

theguardian.com ^ | 6 November 2015 | Reuters

[Berlin_Freeper]

Russia’s airline regulator said it was suspending flying certificates for Boeing 737s in use in the country until it receives notification that the planes are safe to fly.

[Pearls Before Swine]

But, but... wasn’t the plane that went down in Sinai made by Airbus (an A321)?

[riverdawg]

“This has to do with a crash in 2013, and likely the sanctions, as well.”

I can believe the bit about trade sanctions making it difficult to obtain certified spare parts for the 737s. But I thought the investigation into the 2013 crash blamed pilot error.

[Iron Munro]

The TWA800 cover story had me fooled for about 5 seconds until I realized that we have 100,000,000 cars built since the 1990's in the USA which have in-tank electric fuel pumps ,,, all of which have some exposed wiring or the spade connectors on the pumps themselves and I’ve NEVER heard of a car exploding from a bad fuel pump despite far more volatile fuel...

BADA-BING !!!

Not to mention the fact that you can drop a burning match in a container of jet fuel (or kerosene or diesel fuel) and all that happens is that the match goes out.