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NB. It seems this moment news is breaking that the Ethiopia pilots indeed followed the checklist — yet they still lost the airplane. This is getting worse for
by AceyMan 8y ago
NB. It seems this moment news is breaking that the Ethiopia pilots indeed followed the checklist — yet they still lost the airplane.
This is getting worse for Boeing at every turn.
- Cacti 8y agoWell, it sounds like they turned off the autopilot but then turned it back on, which is not part of the checklist. It’s not clear from the reporting exactly what happened and I would hesitate to jump to conclusions. Accidents like this are almost always hugely complicated and are the result of many things going wrong in a specific order at a specific time, rather than a single factor. In fact we don’t even know what the cause of the crash was, and we won’t actually know for several months—there have been a number of crashes where everyone “knew” what the cause was early on, only for it later to come to light that is was something completely unrelated.