Boeing scrambles to contain fallout from deadly crash

As mechanical engineering students at my college, we analyze failures of engineering ethics in the past to better inform our decisions in the future. We analyze a number of situations, always the culpability of the engineer is placed first and foremost to us. Whether legal culpability falls on the engineer, we are taught that the moral culpability falls on us as the arbiters of safety. I can already see that the 737 Max failures will be taught 10 years from now in the ethics classes I currently take.

Singapore just grounded all their 737 Max flights. Aeromexico and GOL grounded their 737 Max planes today. Soon we’ll (U.S.) be the only country left flying these.

On people eschewing their 737 MAX flights, I would argue it's probably even safer to be on a 737 MAX these next few days since every airline and their pilots will be on edge with that particular model.

Boeing and the FAA no doubt believe they are protecting shareholders by not grounding the fleet, but they're risking their reputation. If it turns out that Boeing is at fault, will the American media/industrial complex be able to keep a lid on it? I doubt it.

What an awful metaphor – &quot;contain fallout&quot; – for the NYT to use in its current online headline. (&quot;Boeing Scrambles to Contain Fallout From Deadly Ethiopia Crash&quot;)<p>It makes it sound like there&#x27;s some toxic debris Boeing is still racing to clean-up, when in fact the story is just about financial&#x2F;reputational after-effects.<p>(NYT&#x27;s original print headline for this story, &quot;Crisis for Boeing As Safety Worry Grounds New Jet&quot;, at least avoided the problematic toxic-debris implication – though it somewhat implied the jet was grounded everywhere, or by Boeing, when it&#x27;s just been grounded by some jurisdictions and carriers.)

Some statistically significant percentage of xbox 360s are starting to red light for customers running a certain model number. Microsoft assures customers that there&#x27;s no need to panic as this particular model has been reliable for a long time, and it could just be a statistical anomaly. Microsoft is currently investigating the issue but consumers are weary about paying full price for a product that might break.<p>Substitute xbox 360 with PLANE, substitute microsoft with BOEING, substitute &quot;weary about paying full price&quot; with &quot;dying in a horrible fiery death&quot;.<p>I&#x27;m not sure why this is contentious. Be on the safe side and wait for the investigation to complete in case there&#x27;s some kind of unexpected single point of failure caused by mechanical defects.

Seems like anti-stall software shouldn&#x27;t be killing more people than actual stalls.<p>When was the last major airline downed by a pilot error stall anyway?

It does look possible that the anti-stalling software new to these planes has a bug.