Boeing 737 Max’s Ultimate Test May Be Fearful Passengers
The troubled jet’s return to the skies could lead to some fraught boarding calls, U.S. travelers say.
Recovered wheels from the Lion Air 737 Max that crashed off the coast of Indonesia in November 2018, killing all aboard.
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Fatal flaws in the Boeing Co. 737 Max have been addressed and the plane is now safe to fly, U.S. aviation regulators contend. Yet for many airline travelers, a central question remains: Do I feel safe flying in a plane that crashed twice, killing 346 people?
“There’s no way I’m flying it, period,” said Jon Bonne, a New York-based food and wine writer. “No one in commercial aviation scraps a bad airplane and just starts over. So we’re stuck with the Max.”