Could be some survivor bias here. One 747 Max happened to have a jumpseat pilot who knew how to fix the MCAS issue and the plane flew on without issue and thus

Could be some survivor bias here. One 747 Max happened to have a jumpseat pilot who knew how to fix the MCAS issue and the plane flew on without issue and thus without much media coverage. [1] Presumably, 2 other 747 Max's didn't have enough SME's on board to save them and crashed. [1] https://www.theatlantic.com/notes/2019/03/jump-seat-pilot-and-boeing-737-max/585301/ https://www.theatlantic.com/notes/2019/03/jump-seat-pilot-an...