Originally Posted by
safetypee
Because although the failure is less likely (perhaps far less likely) it is still possible. An MCAS failure once every five years is still an unacceptable risk given how many people can be killed.
There is also the question of how well we really understand the cause of the failure; many times in my experience there another factor beyond the obvious ones. Given that there have been two additional programming (?) errors disclosed (the AOA disagree warning did not work, and some other "minor" control surface issue surfaced) it really feels like the MAX is still in beta and pilots had better be trained in all the worst case scenarios.
Boeing wants to have their cake and eat it too -- the crashes were caused by improperly trained pilots, but no more pilot training is needed! That does not make me want to fly "B" again.