[buckalfa]

Those pesky CEOs and Boards taking shortcuts to maximize stockholder wealth over safety will be the socialists rallying cry. Sarcasm, or is it?

[Gay State Conservative]

Sounds like The Observer might be a subsidiary of Airbus.

[SkyDancer]

Confidence is lost. I wouldn’t want to fly one.

[Telepathic Intruder]

Because it’s computer controlled.

[microgood]

I don’t know, Southwest Airlines have logged more than 40,000 flights without an issue. I definitely will never fly Ethiopian Airlines.

[TNoldman]

Hogwash. Does anyone remember DC-9 crashes from collapsing Nose Gears?
FIX - Don’t land the nose wheel before the main gear.
Boeing is correcting the problem and Boeing CEO is flying on the revised aircraft !

[infool7]

If you want to know the truth?

Check Out Juan Brown's 737Max YouTube playlist

for the best in depth analysis of

this issue anywhere

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[FtrPilot]

This article is simply one person's opinion.

FTA: The MCAS is designed to counteract the tendency of the nose on 737 Max jets to point up due to heavier engines being mounted in a more forward position on the wing than in previous versions of the 737.

This statement shows that the author is absolutely clueless WRT basic aerodynamics.

Moving the engines forward increases longitudinal stability.

Boeing certainly made a lot of mistakes in fielding the MAX.

Authors like this should be disregarded.

[1Old Pro]

Too soon to say whether the plane is unsafe at any speed.

[BobL]

The author sounds a bit gay.

[RayChuang88]

There’s only one solution outside to scrapping the 737 design altogether for an all-new plane (a process that could cost tens of billions of dollars): replace the current wing with an all-new wing with raked wingtips (similar to that of the newer 777 models and the 787) better matched to the larger LEAP-1B engine.

[GOP_Party_Animal]

What should happen to the 737 Max? Nothing. The plane should permanently be grounded. No husband should ever allow his wife or family to fly on a 737 Max. No wife should allow her husband to fly on a 737 Max. No parents should ever allow their children to fly on a 737 Max. No one who cares about anyone should ever allow them to fly on a 737 Max.

Was this article written by a hyperventilating woman?

[cicero2k]

Boeing should have anticipated that the angle of attack sensors might fail, and designed a safer failure mode when it happened.

They didn’t, and the lawyers will discover. Probably some engineers warned management, but management declined action.

To make matters worse, the Boeing president alluded to a software only fix during the earnings call. He did not communicate a redesign of the angle of attack sensor system which would have been much more assuring.

[msrngtp2002]

I flew in the max several times from several different US airports. I will fly on them again. I cant believe any pilot would intentionally fly a plane they believe is crash prone. They would be suicidal. Crashes of foreign planes with inexperienced pilots who barely know how to fly do not scare me.

[Zathras]

First reported on EE Times. Publication by Engineers, for Engineers.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

They put the engines in the wrong place And tried to fix it with software.

What could possibly go wrong?

[HChampagne]

It is not a 737. It is a totally different plane and it should be treated as such with intense training and documentation.

[minnesota_bound]

Boeing needs a BIG RED button in the center of the instrument panel that says “Disengage auto everything” and let the pilots fly manually. If that is still possible.

[Paal Gulli]

There’s no point grounding it, they just should do what Boeing should have done to begin with. Have it re-type-certified as a NOT 737.

[MinorityRepublican]