Originally Posted by
2StgTurbine
There seem to be 2 camps.
1. The airplane is broken and shouldn't not have been certificated.
2. The plane has flaws, but a well trained crew should be able to overcome those flaws.
Boeing tried to fall back and dig in on position #2. It didn't work out for them. It won't work out for them in the future, if they want to sell airplanes outside of the US. Airbus will happily build planes for the LCD pilot.
As I've said before I don't think US Max pilots would have crashed, but it just so happened that they were all in the upper crust of US airline aviation, which has a deeper pool of pilot experience to draw from in the first place. Not so sure I could say the same about entry-level US regional pilots (although at least they have 1500 hours).