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Many comments are debating where blame for the incident lies - some suggesting that Boeing is simply pushing blame onto the carrier and not admitting fault. Thi
by jtms 8y ago
Many comments are debating where blame for the incident lies - some suggesting that Boeing is simply pushing blame onto the carrier and not admitting fault. This very well could be the case, but I do wonder why the crashes of this plane (to my knowledge) have all occurred with carriers that have less than stellar safety records. If this crash had been a European, American, or other airline with a top safety record I would have significantly greater suspicion of the plane model and Boeing specific problem and not just poor safety procedures and training with the airline.
- _cs2017_ 8y agoIt could be that the interaction between the two factors (poor safety practices by an airline and the lack of disclosure by Boeing) increases the risk. Suppose that steering in a new car model tends to drift from the straight line slightly more than usual. Attentive drivers would easily correct for it, and would merely find it annoying. For them the accident rate would increase very little if at all. OTOH, the accident rate might go up more noticeably for those who text while driving, since they often won't notice the drift until it's too late. When you look at the accident reports where steering drift was a factor, you'll see that most of them involved distracted drivers.
- jeromegv 8y agoEthiopian Airlines does not have a poor safety record. They fly all over the world and allowed in Canada, US, Europe, etc. This isn’t the same as the Indonesian crash. People always assume it’s a bad airline because it’s from Africa, but that’s not the case.
- erokar 8y agoGoogle the Swiss cheese theory of safety. Very seldom an accident is caused by only one thing going wrong, and very seldom is it caused by only crew error or only technical failure.
- shaki-dora 8y agoGoing from “Ethiopia” in the airline’s name to an assumption (against factsv) of a bad safety record is textbook racism.
- jtms 8y agoI think going from an entire continent that has a seriously bad safety record and would be EASY to assume (if you didn't know better, which I didn't) that a member country of said continent probably also has safety and process issues to "you're a racist" is a pretty big overreach. People are WAY too cavalier with that branding of people's intentions. You in no way know me, where im from, who I am... and yet you call me that? Tsk tsk... shame on you.