May be more interesting than that.... TBC management will be finally facing some music for the last 25 years of ambivalence. What TBC and the DOJ previously concocted was outrageous in the circumstance, and done on Trumps watch by his AG.
It doesn't preclude the 7 and 10, but it sure doesn't give TBC any leeway on further shoddy managerial decisions. It ain't over till the appeals are over, and the DOJ has to look at it's role in this. The fine funds should have all gone to the families, the govt also had unclean hands in the matter and should have not benefited from the disaster at the cost of the rights of the families.
The B737 is not a bad plane, it is just average. The failure to provide information was unconscionable and the basis of the stabilizer manual mode to meet the Part is flawed still. To rework the design to make it compliant with the intent of the rule would be a monumental undertaking, and proper training and awareness is a better solution.
Let's add TDS to your TLAs.
The 737 (all variants) are not bad aircraft. The conspiracy to cover up the differences between old and MAX was criminal. The design of MAX MCAS with only two inputs to a safety critical system, instead of "best-of-three" was yet another appalling cost-saving decision that cost lives.