Can the 737 MAX be salvaged?

These past days, Boeing’s top boss, Dennis Muilenburg, has been in the hot seat, and when asked by a victim’s parent to resign, he answered by saying that he had not been raised to give up that easily.

The problem is that, he and his board of directors, are either totally devious or woefully incompetent, but should certainly not be allowed to stay at the helm of the company. The same could also be said about the FAA’s folks that were more than lax with the MAX certification process.

At the same time, there is still no firm date in sight as to when the “software problem” will be “fixed”, and if this were to be enough, would passengers in their right mind fool enough to fly in that seemingly cursed airplane.

My guess is that, in the end, Boeing will have little choice but swallow very hard, take back these planes that were sold or are still on order, perhaps retrofit them into regular 737s if it can be done, and start developing the airplane it should have created in the first place instead of the failed MAX version…