I remember watching the following video of a 737 MAX taking off prior to its launch. Clearly this is a demonstration of what the plane is capable of, not how it would take-off on a commercial flight, but I thought it was a remarkable feat of engineering that an aircraft as large as that had the ability and agility to do that. It certainly struck me as unconventional.
Obviously it's too early to say what caused this, but it's at least linked to the Lion Air crash in so much as they both occurred immediately after take-off. I guess this is a risk of progress; when you push the technological envelope there's always a risk that you encounter problems that hadn't been contemplated before.
Obviously it's too early to say what caused this, but it's at least linked to the Lion Air crash in so much as they both occurred immediately after take-off. I guess this is a risk of progress; when you push the technological envelope there's always a risk that you encounter problems that hadn't been contemplated before.