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The 737 MAX 8 is a new plane and it should not be crashing.  Why has it crashed twice in the last 6 months?

The 737 MAX, due to the placement of its engines, has a tendency to raise its nose.  This requires adjustments to control surfaces to bring the plane to level flight.  No other plane, including earlier 737s, has this tendency.  Software won’t change this.

Boeing is between a rock and a hard place.  They have to decide whether to do the right thing and make major structural changes which will cost a great deal of money and put them at a disadvantage to competitor, Airbus, but will fix the problem.  Alternately, they can try to rope-a-dope the world into believing that software changes and more pilot training will fix the problem.   If they do this, you will have to decide whether to fly on the second most dangerous commercial jet ever built by a North American or European country.  I definitely won’t fly on it.