<div dir="ltr">IMO, this was an attempted software fix for a hardware design problem. They shifted the engines forward because they were too large to fit under the wing, changing the balance of the plane. I suspect it will cost Boeing billions to get this plane flying again, if they ever do.<div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Sep 20, 2019 at 5:31 AM Christine Hall via Ipg-smz <<a href="mailto:ipg-smz@netpress.org">ipg-smz@netpress.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">What Really Brought Down the Boeing 737 Max?<br>
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Pretty long piece, but I think it does a good job of explaining the <br>
problems behind the Max's two tragedies. The technology evidently wasn't <br>
the only failure point here.<br>
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</blockquote></div><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br>Patrick Corrigan<br>Email: <a href="mailto:phcorrigan@gmail.com" target="_blank">phcorrigan@gmail.com</a><br><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">LinkedIn: </span><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/patrick-h-corrigan-61669422" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/in/patrick-h-corrigan-61669422</a></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">Member, Internet Press Guild </span><a href="http://www.netpress.org" style="font-size:12.8px" target="_blank">http://www.netpress.org</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>"For every difficult and complex question there is an answer that is simple, easily understood and wrong."<br>      H.L. Mencken<br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>