I am not planning on flying the Boeing 737 max. I’m sure you’ve heard of the controversy involving the aircraft. But if not, here’s a brief summary of what I’ve learned by reading articles following the two fatal crashes. Afterwards the 737 Max was grounded, and is still awaiting recertification as a viable passenger plane. When the process is completed by the Federal aviation administration, it will probably be renamed the 737-800 or something like that
In brief, the original solid 737 was not re-designed, but reengineered with very large General Electric engines. So large, they wouldn’t necessarily clear the ground when landing. So they moved them higher on the Wings and forward. That solved that problem but created another.
.I am not an aviation expert but I read that with the engines forward, thrust would be different and could cause the aircraft to stall upon takeoff. That is different from a stalled car, because it would doom the plane. So they installed a computer software program that would offset the probable Stall by pointing the nose down to prevent it. That resulted in the two aircraft to crash virtually vertically into the ground when The pilots couldn’t control the plane manually.
The fix is supposed to solve that, but some people including me are skeptical that it really works.. I don’t know about you, but I don’t want to experiment with flying. You also have a choice of taking a different plane.
There are several YouTube videos that explore this, and I would invite you to watch at least one of them. They were unnerving to say the least. Southwest airlines flies only 737s, so they would be a probable customer for the new planes.