The 737 Max will be the safest plane in the skies once it starts flying again

David Slotnick

September 18, 2019 3:34 PM

Reuters

The Boeing 737: One of the most successful planes in modern history

The Boeing 737 Max a relatively new airplane model has gained notoriety following two fatal crashes caused by a flaw in the plane's software.
Both Boeing and the Federal Aviation Administration have been sharply criticized for missing the flaw and cutting corners during the design and certification of the plane.
Some have said they plan to avoid flying on the plane once Boeing's fix is approved and the plane is flying again, estimated to be in the fourth quarter of 2019 or early 2020.
However, I think that the 737 Max will be among the safest planes to ever fly, once the fix is implemented, and have no qualms about traveling on it.
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"I ain't NEVER getting on one of these," a reader told me recently in response to a piece of news about the Boeing 737 Max plane.

The reader, Tom, was the latest of many readers who've told me basically the same thing, which boils down to this: The plane is rotten to the core, the two fatal crashes were inevitable, and nothing Boeing or the FAA does short of building it from the ground up and certifying it as a completely new plane will convince them to board one.

I disagree.

The story of the 737 Max's brief history is fraught with poor decisions and cut corners. In a nutshell, the commonly accepted facts are as follows:

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