Doomed Jets Lacked 2 Key Safety Features That Boeing Sold as Extras

[MontanaMama]

45. I will take this one step further Texin...

A good friend of my husband, just retired from Boeing at the age of 57. He was an engineer there for 35 years and the 777 and the Max 8 were both under his purview. After a 777 went missing, was presumed crashed, and as we all know, was never found I asked this guy why there wasn’t satellite location and equipment on the jet? Why couldnt the exact location of the plane be pinged where it went down? He told me that that type of equipment is offered and many airlines don’t choose to purchase it when they buy a plane. Shocking. He also has hair raising stories of how inept the current FAA is under an acting chief who has close ties to Elaine Chao and how badly the government shutdown jeopardized airline safety from top to bottom and they’ve still not caught up from that fiasco. Don’t get me wrong, he’ll defend the quality and safety of Boeing jets all day long because he’s got that bias but he also has inside information regarding which airlines buy the best safety equipment and which ones don’t. IMHO, every plane ought to be decked out with anything and everything to keep us safe and if not, we ought to be able to find out which airlines bought bare bones jets.