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And equally importantly, other planes don't crash nearly as much. Boeing managed to make a new plane that's much more deadly than existing planes on the market.
by CydeWeys 7y ago
And equally importantly, other planes don't crash nearly as much. Boeing managed to make a new plane that's much more deadly than existing planes on the market. It doesn't even matter so much why it's more deadly, just that it is. Placing blame on pilots misses the point, when those same pilots would not have crashed in those same conditions in a different plane.
- hinkley 7y agoDidn’t we manage a few years ago to go an entire calendar year with no commercial airline fatalities?
- kortilla 7y agoWell it can matter if it turns out the issue wasn’t engineering so much as clearly communicating that it’s a different aircraft so the pilots can be trained correctly.
- jacobush 7y agoThe whole point was to reuse the 737 typing. Boeing messed up. (Other parties messed up too, but Boeing started this.)
- CydeWeys 7y agoIt's still unacceptably dangerous even if this difference is communicated. To be safe, at a very minimum you would need triply redundant AoA sensors, an MCAS engaged notification, and an MCAS cutoff switch.
- kortilla 7y agoThere is an MCAS cutoff switch and the side effects of MCAS runaway are visible on the trim wheel. This was a non-issue for the pilots that were correctly trained.