Many people in the industry—and especially at Boeing—still believe the twenty-month grounding was an overreaction, Boeing the fall guy for lousy overseas pilots and sanctimonious whistleblowers. One of the most pointed comments to the final Airworthiness Directive published by the FAA came from an American Airlines pilot: “Interesting that none of the three major airlines had any problems with MCAS. Let’s get her back in the AIR!”
