Good. I was going to write about that piece of crap muckraking article myself a week ago but got distracted and never did.
As with many pieces published in the establishment apologist news organization that is the NYT, the Langewiesche piece toes the Boeing line completely and minimizes the role that shoddy design and management negligence and fraud played in two fatal crashes.
Or, as Sully says:
In “What Really Brought Down the Boeing 737 MAX?” William Langewiesche draws the conclusion that the pilots are primarily to blame for the fatal crashes of Lion Air 610 and Ethiopian 302. In resurrecting this age-old aviation canard, Langewiesche minimizes the fatal design flaws and certification failures that precipitated those tragedies, and still pose a threat to the flying public.
It’s not so shocking these days that such an instance of journalistic malpractice gets published in a major newspaper, I guess. But it’s still disappointing.