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Ethiopia inquiry shows Boeing MAX hurtling uncontrolled to disaster

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Did Boeing in its haste to blame the Lion Air pilots, and deflect blame from its negligent design work just not test its procedure? See if it actually worked? It was possible, although hard to believe, that the ET pilots failed to follow BA's written instruction on how to deal with a MCAS problem. But now we know that the ET pilots did follow the process, I don't see how anyone can fault them. Working with an aircraft that had a MCAS induced issue at 1000 feet, they followed BA's written safety bulletin and it did no good. This crash was 110% Boeing's fault if the ET pilots followed BA's written safety instructions.

Really a sinister cast to Boeing's actions at this point. Given this information showing the fix was not really a fix, I question why anyone would trust Boeing or the FAA at this point on anything. This is IMHO the worst possible outcome for Boeing. Not only did their design flaws/business decisions cause the first crash, they failed to adequately address the issue when putting out written safety instructions after the first crash, leading to a second crash.

So who wants to trust Boeing that the "new" fix on the MAX works? Who trusts them on the 777x? Who trusts them on anything?

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Boeing is over their heads.

There's still no apology from Boeing as well as its customers given that everyone have to ground their fleets.

Unfortunately they play a large part of the aviation space to not easily get boycott completely.

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Jumping to conclusions with only partial data is seldom a smart thing.

The New York Times quoted the Ethiopian government's Dagmawit as saying pilots turned MCAS off and on, which is not the step recommended in published Boeing procedures telling crew to leave it off once disabled.

More questions. Did the crew really turn MCAS back on? If so, why?

If not, was this a hardware, build, or software fault?

More questions.

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Jumping to conclusions with only partial data is seldom a smart thing.

exactly, and boeing and the FAA are the biggest culprits here, in not immediately grounding the model after more than 350 lives were lost in 2 nose diving crashes within 5 months, from a delivered fleet of just 300+ planes.

they were jumping to the conclusion that this plane is safe, in spite of what happened ! instead, boeing issued a statement after the 2nd crash :

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/12/world/africa/boeing-ethiopian-airlines-plane-crash.html

> Boeing issued a statement late Monday saying that since the Lion Air crash, the company had been developing a “flight control software enhancement for the 737 Max, designed to make an already safe aircraft even safer.”

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And now a second fault.

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