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boeing should not have built an aircraft that was so unstable in flight at certain times that it could only be flown during those times by kludgy software and sensors ...

instead, they should have lengthened the 737 landing gear so the engines could be placed under the wings instead of above and in front of the wings as well as increased the size of the 737 tail ...

but of course boeing didn’t do that because that would mean the modified aircraft no longer would be considered a modified 737, but instead would be considered a whole new aircraft, which would require new-aircraft certification, new pilot training, new simulators, new manuals, and new sets of spare parts, and all of that would have been expensive and taken so much time that airbus would have beaten the pants off of them in the market with the A320neo ...

of course, boeing now may have an aircraft that will never fly again and may have damaged their reputation for decades because they chose to cut corners instead of doing things correctly in the first place ...

They did a rush job because they wanted to kill the new jet Bombardier was introducing into the segment. It worked because the 737 Max was sold discounted and was easily deliverable. The Bombardier C series was slow to get going but was a superior jet but suffered in trying to sell them. They only sold to small carriers and the whole program needed subsidies. The 737 Max was killing it in sales. Boeing won the battle but may have lost the war since Bombardier sold the jet program to Airbus and they now for the most part own it. Its now called Airbus 220.