In... Most countries? That's such a weird standard to hold an aircraft to. Even very serious aircraft issues before typically only resulted in crashes in a handful of countries!
Did I read that wrong or do you want 100+ of the 200ish countries in the world to have experienced a 737 MAX crash before scrapping the MAX?
Actually, I think if the planes can be fixed (and I'd be shocked if they couldn't), the two crashes before the fix will no longer be relevant for assessing safety.
As it should be. That's how important safety is. Boeing brought this on themselves by letting a second airplane crash before responding properly.
If it were fixed tomorrow at that point we could discuss how it effects risk in the future.
You are calling me out over nothing. This is uncharitable, to say the least. Why make trouble?
Talking about countries is just another way of saying that the plane was flying in many places all over the world and the risk of accident, despite these horrible accidents, was never very high. As you say, would never happen.