LOT should be seeking compensation from EASA, which grounded the 737 MAX without giving a valid technical reason as required by ICAO convention. It is quite obvious from the data captured by the voice and flight data recorders of the Lion Air flight that the pilot intuitively handled and corrected the effects of undesired activation of MCAS—exactly as Boeing expected him to do—and did so for the first 21 times it activated, but he didn't seem to know that he could turn off the stabilizer's electric trim system and ended up playing yo-yo with the airplane. That knowledge—and which switches would turn it off—couldn't come from intuition, but would come from the simulator training to handle a runaway stabilizer trim condition, which the pilots gave no indication that they had even heard of, let alone trained for, even though that training has been mandatory—with periodic refresher training—since 1967. The training would also have taught them that the runaway trim situation was hazardous and could become catastrophic if not handled promptly as an emergency. The immediate cause of the crash was the Captain handing over control during an emergency to an obviously incompetent FO and then failing to monitor the FO and the airplane while he searched the operations manual for a low priority AIRSPEED UNRELIABLE procedure that should have been memorized, saying "That's OK" when the FO complained that the airplane was going down—because he failed to properly trim it.
But you have to actually be competent in aeronautical engineering to understand what the data says and what it does not. Believing that news-media reporters are aero experts and have integrity, or that Congress' investigation report from Congressional hearings where they did most of the talking and the "evidence" consists of links to news reports is valid, or that Boeing employees used Jedi mind tricks to hoodwink the FAA… is bound to lead you down the merry path of absurdity. Seriously, even without a desperate LOT trying to attain victimhood, this stupid political charade with the 737 MAX has gone on long enough; time to end it.