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Trump Announces Ban of Boeing 737 MAX Flights
President Trump announced that the United States was grounding Boeing’s 737 Max aircraft, reversing an earlier decision by American regulators to keep the jets flying in the wake of a second deadly crash involving one of the jets in Ethiopia. (www.nytimes.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
And yet another post that should be relegated to a political forum...
i am somewhat disgusted with both AA and Southwest who continued to fly these planes until they were grounded by executive order. American even made passengers who wanted to change plane types to pay the change fees. Do they have that little concern for their customers? I would have thought that the liability risk if something had happened to another plane could have bankrupted the company.
According to latest FA data, there are three 737 MAX flying right now....
A quick fix would be a flaps 1 position prior to takeoff as part of the checklist and then going to flaps zero at 2oo kts. I think that going from 15-25 degrees of flaps at takeoff could be causing this onset of stick pusher when the flaps go to zero in a stabilized nose-up attitude. I'm not a pilot but I am a professional spacecraft/aircraft simulator individual who spent 31 years at American's simulator department as a problem solver. I also was deep into the Boeing product line.
You're thinking there Ron. Generally if the aircraft does something unexpected right after performing some action, you should immediately undo that action. Supposedly the MCAS is disabled with flap deployment but may be sitting there with an erroneous input ready to start doing its thing upon flap retraction. If the crew brings the flaps up close to max speed for that setting and continues to accelerate past that speed they may be hesitant to put them back down and the problem grows.
Link to the article in my previous post:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/news/boeing-is-haunted-by-a-50-year-old-feature-of-737-jets/ar-BBUOl5M?li=BBnb7Kz
https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/news/boeing-is-haunted-by-a-50-year-old-feature-of-737-jets/ar-BBUOl5M?li=BBnb7Kz