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Nothing. Boeing lobby power in US is exceptional. That's the only reason.
by JackPoach 8y ago
Nothing. Boeing lobby power in US is exceptional. That's the only reason.
- redisman 8y agoOur actual current Secretary of Defense spent 30 years at Boeing.
- briandear 8y agoAnd that has zero relevance here as the FAA is Department of Transportation.
- AsyncAwait 8y agoRight, and the departments are completely separated and don't work on a 'You scratch my back, I'll scratch yours' basis, ever. /s
- isostatic 8y agoI really hope that’s not the case - I can see the argument that this might not be a design fault and we need to wait and see - just like a330s weren’t grounded after AF447 China clearly grounded ge planes for political reasons, and maybe other countries did it due to the optics. However if the decision in the US has been pushed simply for political reasons that’s a terrible indightment on the industry.
- nraynaud 8y agoAf447 immediately suspected the pitot tubes, as it was an ongoing effort to change them for a different model when the crash happened. A bit like in the Boeing case, it was hoped that the pilot would manually handle the issue if the freezing happened.
- isostatic 8y agoAnd A330s weren't grounded. Had there been a second crash for the same reason though....
- AsyncAwait 8y ago> China clearly grounded ge planes for political reasons Of course, it cannot be that they rather be cautious, right? After all, it's just Chinese lives at risk. Do you really think that? Perhaps the FAA did not ground the planes due to lobbying.