You're missing OP's point. MCAS was flawed, but the plane would have been fine if they hadn't added MCAS. It would just have required pilot retraining (which Bo

You're missing OP's point. MCAS was flawed, but the plane would have been fine if they hadn't added MCAS. It would just have required pilot retraining (which Boeing desperately wanted to avoid). I have never seen a reliable source for the claim that the handling characteristics without MCAS would fail to meet airworthiness requirements.