Originally Posted by
Nomad2
I don't think there will be a proper engineering fix for this.
What we are going to get is a patch, stuck on MCAS, which is itself a patch.
Boeing care about a few hundred deaths in countries other than America, only in as much as they affect its ability to make money.
The Max is a classic example of a design stretched far beyond the original concept, for reasons of expediency and profitability only.
A 'proper' fix would be to redesign the undercarriage and then relocate the engines, but of course that would require a complete re-design, and even though it's what they themselves would have preferred to have done from the start, it's too late now.
A software patch is what we are likely to get.
If any of the max had crashed in USA or Europe FAA would have been the first to ground the MAX then all new redesigned one have come
