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The entire world focused attention on the new system after the Lion Air crash, and it was not enough to stop the Ethiopian Airlines crash from happening. The F
by cjbprime 8y ago
The entire world focused attention on the new system after the Lion Air crash, and it was not enough to stop the Ethiopian Airlines crash from happening. The FAA thinks it's likely that the crashes are related.
- linuxftw 8y agoI don't think they had the altitude to recover, if it was even a recoverable MCAS issue to begin with.
- cjbprime 8y agoI think they did -- it looks like it took six minutes from the first distress call claiming a control issue (at 7000ft) to impact, and they stayed at around 7000ft for much of those six minutes.
- linuxftw 8y agoYou're confused as the information is not widely available. That's 7k ft about sea level. From [1]: > The aircraft climbed very slowly and only to about 1,000ft above ground before crashing. https://leehamnews.com/2019/03/15/bjorns-corner-the-ethiopian-airlines-flight-302-crash/ https://leehamnews.com/2019/03/15/bjorns-corner-the-ethiopia...
- cjbprime 8y agoThanks, I see. Still, around six minutes seems a decent amount of time to fix a flight control problem once you know about it?
- SomeHacker44 8y agoClearly not, as they did not.