Fatal flaws in the Boeing Co. 737 Max have been addressed and the plane is now safe to fly, US aviation regulators contend. Yet for many airline travellers, a central question remains: Do I feel safe flying in a plane that crashed twice, killing 346 people?<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s no way I\u2019m flying it, period,” said Jon Bonne, a New York-based food and wine writer. \u201cNo one in commercial aviation scraps a bad airplane and just starts over. So we\u2019re stuck with the Max.”<\/p>\n
The Max\u2019s catastrophic failures were attributed to Boeing\u2019s shortcomings and US regulators\u2019 deference to the industry they govern. \u201cThat\u2019s what caused the Max to get off the factory line with a whole lot of problems,” said Jerry Elmas, a sales executive in Austin, Texas, who plans to \u201cwait a couple of years” before flying on a Max, even if it means adding a connection to one of his trips. \u201cI\u2019m a business person,” he said. \u201cIf I kill my customers, they don\u2019t come back.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Fatal flaws in the Boeing Co. 737 Max have been addressed and the plane is now safe to fly, US aviation regulators contend. Yet for many airline travellers, a central question remains: Do I feel safe flying in a plane that crashed twice, killing 346 people? \u201cThere\u2019s no way I\u2019m flying it, period,” said Jon Bonne, a New York-based food and wine writer. \u201cNo one in commercial aviation scraps a bad airplane and just starts over. So we\u2019re stuck with the Max.” The Max\u2019s catastrophic failures were attributed to Boeing\u2019s shortcomings and US regulators\u2019 deference to the industry they govern. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[188,139,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-385142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=385142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385142\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}