I am generally the person who says things like "the plane will be many times safer than the car ride to get to the airport", and I would cancel that flight. (A

I am generally the person who says things like "the plane will be many times safer than the car ride to get to the airport", and I would cancel that flight. (And I would further be shocked if the FAA doesn't issue a ground suspension of the MAX tomorrow.) And hey, Southwest gives full credit for cancellations, right? The Lion Air crash was world news. If any 737 pilot heard about it, presumably went through extra training in its aftermath, and yet was unable to avoid the exact same takeoff->unreliable airspeed->stall pattern, then it's simply not possible to rely on piloting to avoid stalling the plane. As far as I know this Ethiopia crash was in visual conditions: the pilots could see the ground, which means they weren't confused about what their AoA was. I'm not an expert, but I think control failure of the airliner under these conditions is basically unprecedented. There's a planned MCAS software update that's been delayed for months: after that actually ships seems like the right time for people to start flying the plane again. https://www.wsj.com/articles/boeing-and-regulators-delay-jetliner-fixes-prompted-by-lion-air-crash-11549821489 https://www.wsj.com/articles/boeing-and-regulators-delay-jet...