[qubit000]

Boeing has lost the public trust not only in the US, but internationally.

Inherent instability aside, fact remains the general perception is that Boeing retrofitted engines too large for 50yr plane design necessitating structural modifications which compromised its flight worthiness. As a result, software had to be written to compensate for this, which unbelievably, relied on input from a single sensor--iow, single point of failure.

The lost of trust is further exacerbated by the fact that Boeing/FAA knew there was high probability of another crash after the first catastrophic incident but refused to ground the planes continuing to let them fly while issuing deceptive public statements regarding the planes safety.

Boeing's largest market is China, which justifiably, will not allow the 737 to fly within their territory.

[slacktide]

Boeing did not get into this position overnight. After the massive cost and schedule overruns on the 787 program, they were far too cash-poor to fund the development of a clean-sheet design, hence the re-warmed 737. The 787 itself was a huge experiment in outsourcing both the costs and risks of aircraft development. It turns out you can outsource cost, but the prime contractor always owns the risk. Dr. John Hart-Smith published an excellent white paper warning of this while the precursor to the 787 was still in development, shortly after the Boeing-McDonnell Douglass merger.

https://www.google.com/search?q=Outsourced+Profits+%E2%80%93...

[hnarn]

What has really ruined my trust for Boeing is not necessarily the incidents with the 737 MAX model specifically, but more the change in that company's culture that these incidents have made me aware of. I can recommend this video[1], but the short of it seems to be that Boeing over a period of decades has replaced its previous "engineering first" culture with what I can only describe, for lack of better wording, as the "suits taking over", with predictable results.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_zn_x2JK5Q