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Boeing refuse to play ball as Dutch MPs reopen 2009 crash case involving 737
The Dutch parliament have moved to reopen an inquiry into the 2009 Turkish Airlines crash at Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport on February 26, 2009. (www.euronews.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
sounds like a make-work project...doesn't all the highly paid apparatchik have enough to do in Holland? Apparently not. What will they learn that has anything to do with the latest 737 issues...nothing I'd say. But maybe they can throw some euros from their taxpayers at a bunch of starving investigators and lawyers. This is all part of the current most popular sport of government aviation authorities worldwide to cover their own tracks by dragging Boeing through the mud as a distraction from their own pitiful problems.
For some countries I'd agree, but this was the (moderately paid) Dutch parliament who, being Dutch, hate spending money without cause. They now feel that the trust placed in Boeing and the NTSB for the report should be reviewed. If I were Boeing I'd take it seriously and co-operate. KLM is heavily and increasingly invested in Boeing, at the moment, and wants to continue. The parent company likes Airbus; wouldn't take much of a push at the moment, and this could be sorted very simply since there is likely little connection with the MAX problems. It's a simple matter of trust.
Please, this is just reflexive European anti-Americanism rearing its ugly head. There is a sense that Boeing is vulnerable and so these little cowards are going in for a few easy stabs at Boeing, which is unfortunately burdened with being a proxy for America.
Why should the trust in the NTSB be an issue at all? They're in no way implicated in the MAX crashes.
Why should the trust in the NTSB be an issue at all? They're in no way implicated in the MAX crashes.
Sure.
If it had been an EU thing I might have agreed, but this is Dutch. The reputations of the NTSB and the FAA are involved because the perception is that Boeing they let Boeing leverage the trust in them to support their commercial objectives at the expense of safety of design and accuracy of opinion, and that this process started well before the current round of MAX incidents.
If it had been an EU thing I might have agreed, but this is Dutch. The reputations of the NTSB and the FAA are involved because the perception is that Boeing they let Boeing leverage the trust in them to support their commercial objectives at the expense of safety of design and accuracy of opinion, and that this process started well before the current round of MAX incidents.
Anybody who conflates the FAA and the NTSB will be dismissed with cause. Go back, study up, write a 500 word essay on the differences between the two agencies, and use it to apply for reinstatement. The NTSB is the model upon which other investigative agencies base their efforts on. They have a sterling reputation, and they have absolutely nothing to do with aircraft certification in general or the MAX in particular.
Don't need 500 words. "Political regulatory body vs impartial investigative one." I understand the difference and the NTSB is indeed an excellent body and a model. I particularly admire their "just the facts" attitude. But outside the USA they are no longer trusted as they were, probably for the wrong reasons. The key word is "perception"; Boeing's stand is not helping.