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Boeing Didn't Tell Southwest Or FAA That It Had Disabled Critical Safety Alerts On 737 MAX
A report in the Wall Street Journal published on Sunday that neither Southwest Airlines nor the FAA (Boeing's primary federal regulator) were aware that a safety feature intended to alert pilots to a potentially malfunctioning 'angle of attack' sensor - in other words, a feature that might have prevented both the crash of ET302 and the Oct. 29 crash of a 737 owned by Lion Air - had been disabled on the new 737s is simply staggering. (www.zerohedge.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
Many are hoping Southwest Airlines has learned a lesson through all this. Diversify your fleet and avoid, as much as possible, these issues in the future. The acquisition of JetBlue would assist in this endeavor.
I have gone from true-blue Boeing fanboy to wondering what the hell we're going to find out about them next. Maybe Air Force 1 should be an A-380.
Rethink that. In spite of MCAS, Boeing still has a fundamentally pilot centered flight control system. Airbus is full-up fly-by-wire. The pilot tells the computer what he wants to be done and the flight control 'package' flies the plane.
been flyin 47 yrs. As a pilot, when I want the airplane, as in when I want to control the plane myself such as during many types of emergencies, a go-around (if i dont have a flight director), or I just want to have fun, then I just push that very small but very conveniently located button right under my right thumb labeled "A/P off". At that very point in time I would want all forms of automated flight control to be OFF and out of my way. Without any delay, or calculation to do, or any hysteresis, or additional buttons to push. This is the way it is in every single or twin w/autopilot that I have flown. The heavy planes, of course, need power assist. fine. Thats not what im talking about here at all. Just give control of the planes back to the pilots. They know how to fly them. How dare Boeing take that away. There is NO excuse that warrants locking the PIC out of basic flight control. And how dare the FAA to allow such a misguided design. I believe the mellenials have finally infiltrated Boeings engineering dept. and especially the FAA (Gov.) They now think in one mode: computerize. Computer solve this. Computer control that. They are not thinking the problem through. They dont have the ability to sort this problem out. IF they did the MCAS would never have existed and two planeloads of people would still be alive. Now it is a problem that once again they are going to try to solve the wrong way. So, you can see why the flying public has a dim future. Remember, too, that Boeing being so large is scrutinized at every turn to comply with affirmative action laws. They must accept employees NOT because they are the best and brightest. Feeling safer yet? While a limited amount of affirmative action was well-intentioned, it now has been going on for decades and Boeing is by now infected by this cancer so you can expect the systemic bad designs to cause more crashes.
Union pilots of all affected airlines: strike until you get unabated control of your airplane back. With the push of one button.
This statement is not an opinion. It is not negotiable and not arguable so dont expect it.
Union pilots of all affected airlines: strike until you get unabated control of your airplane back. With the push of one button.
This statement is not an opinion. It is not negotiable and not arguable so dont expect it.
Exactly. I suggest you never board an Airbus.
It's all about the money. Safety be damned.