southwest just bought 100 more 737MAX and i am never, ever going to fly southwest for any reason short of life and death evacuation.
@sneak I know a flight instructor with lots of experience on big jets, and a good safety engineering focus. Their opinion of all that is any competent pilot should have been able to deal with the 737 Max's failure modes just fine. It's was a serious design fuckup. But it also took a serious lack of competence and training to lead to crashes. US airlines aren't the best in the world re: training. But they're pretty high up on that list. Ethiopian Air is not...
@sneak Speaking of, if you are flying on a 2nd and 3rd world airline, you're better off flying Airbus. They design for much less competent pilots than Boeing does. That lets them sell airplanes to much worse airlines with the same overall safety. OTOH they've had a number of crashes caused by safety features failing that wouldn't have happened with Boeing's design philosophy of expecting competent pilots.
