Ethiopian Airlines crash

Knowing a good deal of aircraft history, it is no surprise what is in the above article.

It backs up earlier comments about money being more important than lives.

This plane was never meant to use turbofan engines, let alone yhe ones on the MAX. The 737 used to have a lopsided engine to give sufficient ground clearance.
 


AlpineExile said:
Particularly if Trump's America keeps trying to fuck over Bombardier.
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To be fair, it was really Boeing that tried to fuck over Bombardier. The predatory pricing of the end of the 737NG production run started far before the trade cases were launched to try to sink the CSeries. They were just shocked that the Trump administration ITC didn't help them out.
 
A good summary of the story so far, and the human impact.


The FAA have convened the committee to decide whether or not to approve Boeing's software changes. Personally, I believe the 737-Max should be scrapped. It has a design flaw. Work-around software doesn't change the fact that the engines are too big and in the wrong place. Economic concerns shouldn't come into it.
 
Monty Pigeon said:
A good summary of the story so far, and the human impact.


The FAA have convened the committee to decide whether or not to approve Boeing's software changes. Personally, I believe the 737-Max should be scrapped. It has a design flaw. Work-around software doesn't change the fact that the engines are too big and in the wrong place. Economic concerns shouldn't come into it.
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I skipped through the video just to watch the pilot segments, absolutely horrific. 5 seconds of control out of 15, the other 10 is a 40 degree nose dive!

Did I hear right, does MCAS only come into play when the flaps go in? So theoretically their only chance of survival would be to extend them again?
 
Ricci's Special Kebabs said:
I skipped through the video just to watch the pilot segments, absolutely horrific. 5 seconds of control out of 15, the other 10 is a 40 degree nose dive!

Did I hear right, does MCAS only come into play when the flaps go in? So theoretically their only chance of survival would be to extend them again?
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Theoretically, if they'd known why the plane was putting them into a nose-dive. But they didn't know. The pilots didn't have a clue about the existence of MCAS, let alone how to stop it.

The corporate segments of the documentary are the most damning. Boeing was so cosy with the FAA that essentially they got to green-light their own planes, saving time and effort in getting them into the marketplace against Airbus.
 

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