3 ms·
Boeing 737-800 crash landing in 2009 already highlighted the same general issues as with 737 MAX: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7909915/Design-short
by trhway 7y ago
Boeing 737-800 crash landing in 2009 already highlighted the same general issues as with 737 MAX:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7909915/Design-shortcomings-Boeing-plane-caused-737-crash-2009-new-report-finds.html https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7909915/Design-shor...
>New York Times cites unpublished Dutch report on Turkish Airlines crash from 2009 in which nine people were killed near Amsterdam
>Dutch investigators determined that design flaws led to the Boeing 737-800 crashing into a field
>Investigators found that a sensor mistakenly triggered a command computer to idle the engine as the plane approached the runway for landing
>But American investigators with the US government and Boeing pressured the Dutch investigators to emphasize pilot error while downplaying Boeing's role
And that about simulator sounds very familiar too:
>Boeing has stopped production of the planes and agreed to allow pilots to undergo simulator training before the jets return to service.
- panarky 7y agoWe should stop talking about this as an engineering defect that the FAA needs X number of months to review. The root cause is not an engineering defect, but a set of organizational, cultural, and managerial defects. This is the root cause that leads inexorably to a variety of seemingly unrelated engineering defects. Perhaps regulators should hold off on approving new airplanes until Boeing can demonstrate that they have fixed the organizational, cultural, and managerial defects that are the root cause of their safety problems.