I think its all very well for experienced crew and engineers to comment about the Max but we live in an age of hysterical mass media which often panics politians. Not helped by Boeings dodgy business culture and the FAA becomeing a tool of the industry it reglates,gosh whoever thought that regualtors might be honest or impartial?
But give a dog a bad name these days and it sticks for along time and lets face it the poor old Max is just that -old, it is like derivate number 10 of the stubby little thing I first saw land at LHR in Lufthansa colours close on 50 years ago. the Max seems like a digital version of the Beech 1900 which had about 8 extra aerofoil surfaces to cancel out what were no doubt all kinds of aerdynamic puzzles that arose from turning a little King Air into a mini airliner