Originally Posted by
atakacs
As for the Ethiopian crash we are way too early to draw any conclusion. An immediate airspace ban of the whole fleet is utter madness.
Nobody has drawn any conclusion from the ET-302 crash.
However the Lion Air crash and investigation has revealed not only a failed part but also a possibility of a serious design problem with the 737 MAX. Now that another 737 MAX of a similar age has crashed in not only the same phase of flight but from what information we do have, in a similar way (unreliable airspeed and difficulty gaining height) we have to take seriously the possibility that the same thing caused both crashes. Added to that, the short life of the model gives it a very high 'fatal crashes per million flights' statistic.
Given all of the above along with the fact that this isn't simply a batch of dodgy AoA sensors, but a possible design fault that could affect every aircraft in the fleet, it would be an act of sheer folly not to ground the entire fleet.