"I will never hesitate even for a second to fly on a 737 MAX", Warren Buffett stated responding to a question about Boeing's reputation on the side-lines of a shareholder meeting of his Berkshire Hathaway empire in Omaha.
He also added that "planes have never been so safe".
In April, Boeing Chief Executive Dennis Muilenburg said that new anti-crash software on 737 Boeing MAX jets had successfully completed trial runs on 120 test flights with a total duration of 230 hours.
The world's third richest men commented on recent incidents involving two Boeing 737 MAX aircraft that crashed in the past six months — one in Indonesia in October 2018 and another in Ethiopia in March of this year.
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In the wake of the latest crash, aviation authorities and carriers around the world have either grounded all 737 MAX series aircraft or closed their airspace to them.