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There's a bit of a nuance here - his grandniece was killed in the Ethiopian 737 accident [1] so it's personal at some level for him. [1]: https://www.npr.org/2
by rcchen 7y ago
There's a bit of a nuance here - his grandniece was killed in the Ethiopian 737 accident [1] so it's personal at some level for him.
[1]: https://www.npr.org/2019/04/04/709999296/ralph-nader-calls-for-recall-of-boeing-737-max-jets-after-his-grandniece-was-kil https://www.npr.org/2019/04/04/709999296/ralph-nader-calls-f...
- exabrial 7y agoMmm... didn't know that. I understand _why_ now, but, "never letting the 737 max fly again" is a purely emotional decision that helps no-one. They didn't tear down a 45 story building after the Hyatt Regency walkway collapse, as example. HN is showing a trend of purely blaming Boeing, but there were in fact several failures. Any one of: pilot training [There's a runaway stabilizer trim procedure that's actually a memory item for 737 pilots], not allowing single sensor inputs for flight control systems [FAA spec failure], the decision to allow the MCAS system to command an extreme amount of trim [engineering failure, should have been limited to a sane value] could have prevented the accidents.