Boeing to Temporarily Shut Down 737 Max Production

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12. I fully agree

Remember that the MCAS system, which was instrumental in both crash sequences, was installed to make flying the MAX feel enough like flying the 737NG that pilot recertification was not required. MCAS was effectively band-aids on band-aids. It’s also been discovered that the NG aircraft are likely to have the same difficulties retrimming manually as the MAX. A clean sheet design would never have been configured the way the MAX was.

I’ll point out that the two MAX crashes killed a lot more people than the previous example of a jet aircraft that went into service with a major design flaw: the deHavilland Comet. The Comet did not return to service until after a major redesign, which is probably not possible with the MAX.