Is Boeing in big trouble?

Around the middle of March, I was trying to explain how Boeing got in such trouble by modifying its hottest airplane, in order to keep it popular and continue making lots of money selling it.

Since the changes made rendered the plane almost impossible to fly, Boeing's engineers turned toward military aircraft technology, where all kinds of jet fighter designs that should never be able to fly the way they do, receive “help” from computers that enable them to be super maneuverable in spite of their lack of flying functionality.

They must have thought, “if we can make these machine fly, we can do the same with the 737 Max...” Problem is that these planes are used a great deal more than their military counterparts and that while software can make some miracles from time to time, it can't guarantee all miracles, all the time.

Now that all eyes are on the FAA, the cozy relationship that prevailed between that Federal Agency and Boeing is like to undergo increased scrutiny.

At the same time the Chinese and the European Union that used to defer to all FAA's decisions, may not continue on that path and could make life extremely difficult for Boeing, that might as a result of these other large clients' reluctance to continue buying the aircraft, fall into bankruptcy.

Sure the U.S. Government will have no other choice of saving the aircraft manufacturer on account of its share of military contracts, but this might have deep consequences for its civilian division...