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>the 737 MAX is Boeing's best selling plane ever... WHY? in most industries, the fat part of the market is the lower end, so your smallest cheapest product is
by fsckboy 3y ago
>the 737 MAX is Boeing's best selling plane ever... WHY?
in most industries, the fat part of the market is the lower end, so your smallest cheapest product is your biggest seller. McDonalds sells more regular hamburgers than they do Big Macs. BMW sells more 3 series than they do 7 series.
There are many other factors that go into selecting the brand of the next plane you buy than simply "zomg they made a mistake".
Boeing still has a leading technology and engineering position in the aerospace field, and their product line overall is a very good fit for what many carriers need to buy. This problem of some loose bolts is easily remedied, and is just not a dealbreaker. despite an exaggerated title, TFA is very light on making any case that there's a set of deep problems inside Boeing that rise to any level of statistical significance. A software problem and some loose bolts.
- Swenrekcah 3y agoThe door plug falling out is a mistake. The MCAS crashes were caused by criminal negligence and outright fraud driven by money concerns. The plane may be OK after the fixes and now when the pilots are no longer (?) being actively misled by Boeing, so perhaps no need to scrap the whole fleet. But MCAS was not a “software problem”.
- WalterBright 3y ago> But MCAS was not a “software problem”. Yeah, it was. And so was the fix. There was also a pilot training issue, in that of the 3 crews that experience MCAS failure, only one of them thought to turn off the trim system (and landed safely).