expired Posted by serra | Staff • Nov 28, 2022
Nov 28, 2022 5:59 PM
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expired Posted by serra | Staff • Nov 28, 2022
Nov 28, 2022 5:59 PM
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More likely to get hit by some idiot on the highway on the way to the airport then to be part of some CrAzY DrAmAtiC 737 MaX DrAmA
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I was simply stating that it was a big deal for the airline industry and society as a whole, as Boeing had ignored the issues with the 737 Max due to the pressures Airbus eating their market share. To say that "barely anything had come of it." Was grossly inaccurate. Boeing had to repair massive PR damage they had done to their image and renew public confidence in their planes.
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If I recall the pilots that crashed didn't have a lot of hours.
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If I recall the pilots that crashed didn't have a lot of hours.
The fact of the matter is Boeing implemented a system and completely neglected to place any material in the manual for the purposes of not requiring pilots to need further training making the 737 max less desirable of a product to buy. Airlines dont want to pay for more training and anything significant added would require additional training.
That in itself tells you that safety was not first. Especially for a safety system designed to basicaly take control of the plane and force the nose down in certain conditions. Imagine your car suddenly lane correcting itself and you had no idea it had that feature. You'd think a ghost was driving.
On top of that, if I remember right, there was a sensor that malfunctioned causing the MCAS to activate in both instances causing the planes to inadvertently go into a dive despite the pilots doing what they were trained to do in both instances. It was not pilot error but a faulty triggering of the mcas by a sensor and no way to effectively override it. Boeing now has two of those sensors in the event one malfunctions. The fact that they have now installed two to prevent it from happening further reinforces the faulty design. This is just going off my memory of the events, but when all this happened I was absolutely intrigued as I love to fly and love aviation.
Flying is infinitely safer than driving and for two planes of the same model to go down in such a short time span under similar circumstances just seemed like winning an airplane lottery of badness. I was just on a 737 max for thanksgiving, and believe in the plane, but that doesn't mean it didn't have some faults initially that Boeing glossed over in favor of profits and sales.
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