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Pilots complained for months about suspected flaw...
Pilots repeatedly voiced safety concerns about the Boeing 737 Max 8 to federal authorities, with one captain calling the flight manual "inadequate and almost criminally insufficient" several months before... (www.dallasnews.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
With the lastest info (that a jumpseat pilot was instrumental in safely landing a previous flight of the doomed LION flight), one can conclude that having time, experience and an available manual is essential to safe flight. HOWEVER, if reading a native language translation of an English manual, is anything like reading an English translation of how to assemble a tent, picnic table, or wheelbarrow; it's amazing any pilot can keep an aircraft in the air. Let's get down to REAL basics!!!
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So the dude who suggests we can "just look at the airplane in 3D" to see "what is going on" is now dispensing financial advice.
Well for the love of pete where do I sign up?
Well for the love of pete where do I sign up?
Relax. Everything is fine now. Breath deep into your paper bag(s). The airlines are only loosing millions of USD per day. Nothing to see here. Move on. 200-hour plus co-pilot? Keep moving. 28-year old "Senior" Captain? Keep moving. Crap digital data transition from analogue data to digital information from the "Angle of Attack" input to the flight director? Nothing to see here. Move on... Keep moving.
The headline says "pilots complained for months", then yesterday both American A and Southwest said out of more than 20,000 flights, they had no issues reported. Are these complaints only from other countries?
Five complaints total, two of which about the same flight.
Good information. If the five complaints were about dangerous incidents about behavior of the jet that was unexpected by the pilots, five would be an awful lot.
It's not that common for a minor instrument failure to cause a jet to force is not down in a way the pilots don't expect. When this happens in a critical phase of flight, any delay by the pilots in deactivating the system/pulling the breaker can be catastrophic and the fact that the pilots were not trained about the MCAS system before the Lion Air crash made such delays far more likely.
A simple Service Bulletin to alert pilots to how the MCAS works might have prevented Lion Air. Obviously suck a warning existed at the time of the Ethiopian crash, so it's hard to absolve those pilots of a large share of fault.
It's not that common for a minor instrument failure to cause a jet to force is not down in a way the pilots don't expect. When this happens in a critical phase of flight, any delay by the pilots in deactivating the system/pulling the breaker can be catastrophic and the fact that the pilots were not trained about the MCAS system before the Lion Air crash made such delays far more likely.
A simple Service Bulletin to alert pilots to how the MCAS works might have prevented Lion Air. Obviously suck a warning existed at the time of the Ethiopian crash, so it's hard to absolve those pilots of a large share of fault.
There's no edit button to fix all my typos?
*force its nose down
*such a warning
*force its nose down
*such a warning