"First Southwest 737 MAX Breaks Down on Flight #2 With CEO on Board." So, problems from the start?

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

9. I'm not questioning that you're repeating what your friend said

and that she may have gotten it from her pilot husband, but I stand by my statement that the official cause of crashes is not just blithely written off to pilot error for insurance purposes. And if the pilot husband says that, then he doesn't understand anything about airplane crashes and how they're investigated and what often comes from those investigation. Often procedures are changed specifically to eliminate that same pilot error occurring in the future. Or restrictions are placed on what weather conditions can be prevailing to attempt a landing. Or equipment changes or improvements are recommended. It is the NTSB that determines what really happened, and has done so since 1967. Yes, I'm sure they can make mistakes, but those investigators are quite amazing.

I've had occasion to read the NTSB reports of a couple of crashes, and they've always been fascinating reading. If you wish, you can go to the NTSB site and look at some. Keep in mind that most of the investigations are not commercial plane crashes. What's astonishing just looking at that list is the very wide variety of incidents they do investigate. A lot of the reports exist in PDF format so you can download and read them.

Here's the link: https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/AccidentReports/Pages/AccidentReports.aspx