Poll: Would you fly on a Boeing 737 MAX?

[denem]

Would you fly on a Boeing 737 MAX?

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	Yes
	1 (6%)
	Yes - if there was no alternative flight
	0 (0%)
	Yes - if there was a penalty/surcharge for refusing
	0 (0%)
	No
	15 (94%)
	Other
	0 (0%)
	0 DU members did not wish to select any of the options provided.
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[IggleDuer]

1. No, but Ted Cruz should fly back to Texas in one.

It would be an empty plane , so he wouldn’t spread his disease to other passengers.

[maxsolomon]

2. People need to read the NYT Magazine Article from a few months back:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/18/magazine/boeing-737-max-crashes.html

[denem]

3. Even with training, pilots had only 10 seconds to avoid an MCAS death spiral.

The Boeing 737 MAX Nightmare Keeps Getting Worse
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For example, it was obvious to me and other experienced reporters that the Lion Air pilots had been swiftly overcome by a problem that that they had not been trained to prepare for because it was related to a new control system, Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System (MCAS), that they—along with all other MAX flight crews—did not know even existed.

And yet Boeing insisted to us that the pilots could have overcome this fatal malfunction by treating it as a condition known as “runaway stabilizer”—one that was actually included in the flight manual as a legacy item—even though the actions triggered by the MCAS were far more extreme.

Now the House report confirms, shockingly, that Boeing knew all the time that the pilots had only 10 seconds to identify the problem and deal with it before being overpowered by the MCAS’s rogue actions.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-boeing-737-max-nightmare-keeps-getting-worse

[maxsolomon]

4. Yeah, I'm not saying there's no problem.

I'm saying it helps to know the context before you render binary opinions like "I'll never fly on one ever ever ever".

If/when they're back in the air, avoiding them won't be that easy.

[denem]

5. 'avoiding them won't be that easy'

which is why I included the options of yes - no alternative flights; and yes - if there is a surcharge for refusing to fly on one.

[PuppyBismark]

6. the max trim problem has been identified and will be fixed before it flies

When the max is cleared to fly, it will be as safe as any airline to fly, if not safer.

[maxsolomon]

7. given the fine-toothed comb they're using, maybe safer.

I have a friend who's come out of retirement to help with the testing. I hear them overhead pretty regularly - Boeing field is straight south of downtown.

[Calculating]

8. It will probably be safer than most other planes by the time it ever gets recertified

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[Act_of_Reparation]

9. I prefer riding "in" places.

[crickets]

10. Props for the George Carlin reference.

[gopiscrap]

11. Absolutely not

my wife and were on one of those from Addis Ababa to Newark on Jan 2, 2019

we had to make an unscheduled stop in Abidjan Ivory Coast we were there for 6 hours while they fixed the plane, it was nerve wracking then a couple of weeks later that model crashed just on the other side of a mountain where we stayed in Addis Ababa

[Gidney N Cloyd]

12. For awhile, I'd worry about what other problems were ignored before and during this one.