Will the crisis have a lasting impact on Boeing’s business?
What role did Boeing play in the causes of the two crashes?
Asked about what led to the safety flaws in the 737 Max, Muilenburg said Boeing didn’t make any mistakes in its design of the planes. “There was no surprise or gap or unknown here or something that somehow slipped through the certification,” Muilenburg said. “We know exactly how the airplane was designed, and we know exactly how the airplane was certified.” (Fuel for the 3rd world pilot error crowd)
Will Boeing make any changes to the way it produces or certifies new planes?
How much will Boeing owe to airlines and the families of victims?
I'd never fly on one, no matter the assurance from Boeing.
The problem here is deep. It would appear from reports that the 737 MAX is not properly balanced, and the software was not a optional extra to make a good plane better, but an essential and very complicated fix to a very basic balance issue.
If this was just a an optional extra computer program, they would have had an override switch on it in the first place, and even if they didn’t they would have added one after the first crash.
If it’s a basic balance issue, these planes will never fly again.
There is demand for an efficient regional platform. The 737 is the proven and dominant model for that. It may take up to 24 months for the courts and the company and the public memory to work through this, but they will bounce back.
Pull the LEAP engines. Thats the problem.
However there was other mods to accommodate the so called green engine, longer landing gear for instance.
I am beginning to think the whole project is going to be recalled.
The 737 MAX should never fly again. It needs to be renamed so that hotshot pilots who know the 737 don’t automatically think they know how to fly the MAX. That is what got them into trouble on those two crashes.