Originally Posted by
patplan
It needs a "little" correction. The first delivery of Boeing 737 MAX 8 [B38M] was on May 6, 2017 to Malindo Air [9M-LRC]- a Lion Air subsidiary. They placed the aircraft into commercial service on May 22, 2017. Coincidently, that plane is now being operated in Indonesia by Lion Air, now coded as PK-LQK. Originally, SWA was intended to be the launch customer for B38M.
In other words, Boeing 737 Max 8 has only been flown commercially since May 6, 2017, less than 20 Months ago to be exact.
Agreed. This failure mode, whatever it turns out to be, has demonstrated catastrophic consequences, possibly in two cases The system safety of the type design requires improvement. Training is not an acceptable alternative to safe design. I would be curious to know how a software "enhancement" answers the mail, and I wonder what the design assurance level of the software is. If faulty AoA sensing is part of the issue, then the AoA sensing system input to MCAS will need system safety (hardware) enhancement in keeping with potential catastrophic consequences of the failure mode. Of course, the actual resolution must be based on more data than we have on this forum.