Imagine if a best-selling car had caused fatalities because of a mechanical issue and then, a few years later, had a near-fatal incident due to another manufacturing fault. Would you feel safe in it? Would you buy one?
Boeing's 737 Max has been beset by a series of setbacks since its launch in 2016
This is the potential issue Boeing faces with its 737 Max, one variant of which remains grounded after a door plug blew out on a two-month old Alaska Airlines Max 9 earlier this month leaving a gaping hole in the aircraft’s fuselage.
This incident followed terrible accidents in 2018 and 2019 when two Max 8 aircraft flown by Indonesia’s Lion Air and Ethiopian Airlines crashed due to a flight control software issue which sent both aircraft into an unrecoverable nosedive, killing 346 people.
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