Originally Posted by
etrang
This is only the second 737 Max accidents since the aircraft was launched, so it is premature to be calling for its grounding.
One could replace the word 'only' with 'already' which, in my opinion, is a more faithful representation of the present situation.
To wit, a brand new derivative of a 50-year old design, engineered and built by one of the two premier commercial airframe manufacturers, should not have suffered two crashes within such a short time-span. Particularly not if the first may have had a questionable piece of software, relying on a single sensor input, as a major contributing factor. If this, second, accident is in any way linked to the first by a common failure, the only prudent cause of action will be to ground the fleet and allow the manufacturer to get things straightened out.