The safety of 7M8 is beyond the bigger problem, which the bigger problem is to ensure this does not happen again.

FAA has 2 major responsibilities - safety and promote aviation. While I won't say FAA has been paid off by the airlines, indeed FAA has a conflict of interest in its policy making.

In the case of 787, FAA grounded 787s rapidly despite no fatality. So when 346 passengers were killed, FAA should ground the 7M8 in light of safety (side note - IMHO, grounding the 7M8 actually helps to Boeing to recover from all the bad press, regardless the crashes were related to Boeing or not).

So when anyone (including FAA and airlines) brainwash the public that 7M8s are safe, I would say they are liar even the cause of the crashes still remain unknown.

Probably because they know that there's always the chance your new flights could end up on the MAX8's so they'll let the GA's worry about it. ;)

Not at all surprised by this. They are running the numbers. Most will accept their flight on the assigned plane.

Airlines do not care if a plane with 150 people crashes.

Wasn't promotion of the industry removed from their mandate after the ValuJet crash?


Didn't Japan do it first and then the FAA followed them?

No. It is still showing up as one of the mission of FAA as of the time of this post.

Yes. But at that time, Japan is the country with the most 787s. I believe now China is the country has the most 7M8 or 737 MAX.

WN has 34 MAX in its fleet, so you are wrong too haha.

Singapore grounded all 737 MAX
 

Singapore authorities grounded all 737 Max, this mostly affects SilkAir. Lion Air and Garuda grounded their 737 Max fleet, too (11 / 1 planes).

Edit: not just grounded, they banned all 737 Max (all variants) from SG airspace.

https://www.rte.ie/news/world/2019/0312/1035823-ethiopian-airlines-crash/

Australia has banned 737max from operating to thru or from its airspace.

Well, Boeing and the FAA for starters say it is.

Boeing to upgrade software in 737 MAX 8 fleet in 'weeks'

Right. They don't care about the bad publicity and reputation that follows a plane crash, or the fact that they can be sued if they knowingly fly a risky plane that kills two pilots, flight attendants, and 150 passengers.

The "airline" is the shareholders, and I can guarantee you they do care if a crash happens.

Don't planes constantly send data back to earth? And didn't the pilot communicate about a problem before the crash?

Limited as the information may be, it seems a bit ridiculous to dismiss every authority that's grounding this plane as doing so with "no" information at all. For all we know, the pilot specifically complained about the MCAS...

Yes indeed. If people really think "third world airline" is to blame, perhaps they should stop buying these 737 MAX.

To topic, WN is in deep trouble now, with mechanics problems and now this. They are cancelling flight left and right. They really need to think about diversifying their fleet and settle with mechanics union asap.