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> Which clearly references Lion Air the company. Ah, yep, I misread that (can I blame the typo...? ;) ) My point is that is that it is appropriate to call out

> Which clearly references Lion Air the company. Ah, yep, I misread that (can I blame the typo...? ;) ) My point is that is that it is appropriate to call out Boeing for their attempt at deflecting blame. The pilots apparently did not take an action that _may_ have saved the plane (we now know it may not have). That doesn't change the fact that the issue they failed to correct was a faulty design in the first place, and would have resulted in a crash at some point.

treis 8y ago
>My point is that is that it is appropriate to call out Boeing for their attempt at deflecting blame. Sure, but that doesn't mean going the other way and deflecting blame from Lion Air and the pilots. >The pilots apparently did not take an action that _may_ have saved the plane (we now know it may not have). Disabling electric trim would have absolutely saved the Lion Air flight just like it did when the same issue cropped up on the previous flight. Some speculated (which appears to be incorrect) that the Ethiopian Air flight was in a situation that they couldn't recover from, but the Lion Air flight was not in that situation. The Lion Air pilots identified that the trim was incorrect and reset it at least 20 times. It's fair to fault them for not coming to the conclusion that the electric trim system was malfunctioning and that they should disable it.