<story><title>American Airlines Is Quietly Bringing Back the 737Max</title><url>https://www.zdnet.com/article/american-airlines-is-quietly-bringing-back-the-737-max-heres-why-thats-disturbing/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>phire</author><text>Certianlly not just a single flaw. They found and fixed multiple other flaws while checking though everything for re-certification.&lt;p&gt;In my opinion, the 737Max is probably one of the safest planes right now, simply because of the amount of scrutiny it&amp;#x27;s been though.</text></item><item><author>tuna-piano</author><text>737Max is certainly tainted now. But will that last forever? And do non-HN-aviation-geek consumers really care enough to check the model of the plane they&amp;#x27;ll be flying on, let alone make a flight decision based on the model?&lt;p&gt;Certainly another crash could be devastating to the model.&lt;p&gt;But was the 737Max a poorly designed death trap rushed to production or a super safe airplane with a single fatal flaw?&lt;p&gt;Time will tell...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pera</author><text>&lt;i&gt;Boeing whistle-blower says proposed 737 Max fixes aren&amp;#x27;t enough.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;179 points by bookofjoe 50 days ago&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=24543411&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=24543411&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>American Airlines Is Quietly Bringing Back the 737Max</title><url>https://www.zdnet.com/article/american-airlines-is-quietly-bringing-back-the-737-max-heres-why-thats-disturbing/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>phire</author><text>Certianlly not just a single flaw. They found and fixed multiple other flaws while checking though everything for re-certification.&lt;p&gt;In my opinion, the 737Max is probably one of the safest planes right now, simply because of the amount of scrutiny it&amp;#x27;s been though.</text></item><item><author>tuna-piano</author><text>737Max is certainly tainted now. But will that last forever? And do non-HN-aviation-geek consumers really care enough to check the model of the plane they&amp;#x27;ll be flying on, let alone make a flight decision based on the model?&lt;p&gt;Certainly another crash could be devastating to the model.&lt;p&gt;But was the 737Max a poorly designed death trap rushed to production or a super safe airplane with a single fatal flaw?&lt;p&gt;Time will tell...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kqr</author><text>Unless, of course, it was fixed and scrutinised by &lt;i&gt;organisations&lt;/i&gt; which still have the same systemic flaws as the first time around.&lt;p&gt;Until the sociotechnical systems that do the work change, they will keep overlooking problems and making similar mistakes, from a high-level perspective.</text></comment>