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.
It was posited early in this thread that there was quite possibly a single point of failure.
That the MCAS relied on a single AOA is that single point. Now potentially a causal factor in two fatal accidents does not bode well for a soft solution.
The world has watched the silence of Boeing, the duplicitous silence of the FAA can readily be construed as regulatory capture.
Anything less than a full and frank commitment to resolve the root problem, not with legal inspired weasel words but action may not see all countries regulatory authorities so quick to play circus elephants and follow a clearly compromised FAA.