No need to fix the 737MAX then. Before it was grounded it flew thousands of flights daily and tens of thousands of flights over several months with only two crashes. The first crash was due to a faulty angle of attack (AOA) sensor which was ignored by Lion Air maintenance, plus the pilots' error in responding to the faulty sensor. The second was pure pilot error by an Ethiopian Air flight crew. Could Boeing have designed the MCAS system to be safer and trained pilots better? Sure but it would have been expensive and as Milton Friedman points out no human life has infinite value, no airplane can be made 100% safe and every consumer who flies chooses the risk.
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