The Boeing 737 MAX Nightmare Keeps Getting Worse

[denem]

The Boeing 737 MAX Nightmare Keeps Getting Worse

Nearly a year after a second crash of a Boeing 737 MAX that led to its grounding, the full extent of the company’s complicity and negligence, abetted by regulators, is revealed by a damning report from the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. ...

For example, it was obvious to me and other experienced reporters that the Lion Air pilots had been swiftly overcome by a problem that that they had not been trained to prepare for because it was related to a new control system, Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System (MCAS), that they—along with all other MAX flight crews—did not know even existed. ...

Now the House report confirms, shockingly, that Boeing knew all the time that the pilots had only 10 seconds to identify the problem and deal with it before being overpowered by the MCAS’s rogue actions. ...

And the report reveals for the first time that in 2013 a Boeing engineer suggested that the MAX should be equipped with a synthetic air speed indicator, a computer-based system first used on the Boeing 787 Dreamliner, that would have provided a far more reliable backup system in the case of false readings.

Boeing management rejected this proposal because it would have entailed providing pilots with simulator training—something that the company was determined to avoid on the grounds of costs.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-boeing-737-max-nightmare-keeps-getting-worse

[Sherman A1]

1. The Damn Things Need to be Scrapped

and Boeing should be on the hook for the costs to the airlines.

[roamer65]

2. Pretty soon there won't be any airlines buying planes.

[CatWoman]

3. K; R

[Takket]

4. some decision makers should be in prison..............

[denem]

5. ...