Originally Posted by
Maninthebar
All good plans but....
10 MAX are being produced a week with the current physical spec. In order to achieve certification for these frames with the above modifications ANOTHER, separate design and approval process needs to run.
Then the modifications need to be made to each airframe, while still building new MAXes to the revised spec as above. Where does the manufacturing or maintenance capacity exist to do this?
This is why Boeing is fixated on a software revision.
Yep, so it is but at some point we have to bite the bullet. Exceptional events sometimes need more drastic solutions than software updates.