The known harm to Boeing’s business has already been largely capitalized into its stock. Airbus can’t ramp up narrowbody production quickly enough. No one wants to have signed off on the return of the MAX if that Boeing incident is with one of those aircraft even if it’s unrelated to issues raised after the Lion Air and Ethiopian crashes. Evenually there will be another incident somewhere in the world with an Airbus jet, and there will be an incident with a Boeing jet also.
No one wants to be blamed if the plane is re-certified and something bad happens, no matter how unlikely that is.
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Ethiopian crew disengaged MCAS but left the plane at full takeoff power which magnified challenges recovering control of the aircraft. Different pilots, without the information from the day before, weren’t able to overcome a flight situation created by a combination of a faulty part and a MAX design flaw. The experience wasn’t written up properly.
Crew the day before the crash experienced similar issues with the aircraft, but handled the issue differently. Lion Air installed a faulty angle of attack sensor into its 737 MAX that crashed.
Many readers believe that the Boeing 737 MAX should never fly again.