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© (c) Copyright Thomson Reuters 2019.Ethiopia inquiry shows Boeing MAX hurtling uncontrolled to disaster
By Jason Neely ADDIS ABABA©2024 GPlusMedia Inc.
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CrazyJoe
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?
Kag
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.
theFu
Jumping to conclusions with only partial data is seldom a smart thing.
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.
shoganai
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 :
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Goodlucktoyou
And now a second fault.