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The Max8 has been cleared by the FAA to resume flying following two crashes that killed 346 people. Is the Max 8 a safe airplane and would I fly on one?

Boeing was a storied aeronautics company which built the most advanced, safest planes in the world, until the “bean-counters” took control of the company from the engineers. Great engineering was sacrificed for the bottom line. The result was the Max 8, an obsolete plane that needs computer software to fly safely. As 346 people found out, the software did not always work. This plane was the result of the “bean-counters’” quick fix which enabled Boeing to compete with Airbus on the cheap.

Concluding an 18-month probe in September of this year, the final House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure’s 245-page report found that “Boeing failed in its design and development of the MAX, and the FAA failed in its oversight of Boeing and its certification of the aircraft.”

I will not fly on a Max 8 because I believe that, although the software fix has been extensively tested and probably works very well, the “bean-counters” are still in charge and the company remains ethically challenged and I prefer to give my business to ethical companies.