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The incidents were unrelated to maintenance. They were only related to training in the sense that the airlines in question didn't have access to the training th
by jessaustin 6y ago
The incidents were unrelated to maintenance. They were only related to training in the sense that the airlines in question didn't have access to the training that would have informed pilots of the serious design flaws inherent in this aircraft.
- redis_mlc 6y agoThe Indonesian accident was definitely related to maintenance - the AoA snsors are external, and at least one AoA sensor had been damaged. The Indonesian NTSB found the pilots, mechanics and Boeing equally responsible.
- jessaustin 6y agoNew revealings in the report include the discovery of the reason the AOA sensor was feeding faulty information to the flight control computer was that it was most likely improperly repaired by a U.S.-based maintenance repair facility. [0] So, the seemingly racist thread hypothesis of "Indonesians are too stupid to operate modern aircraft" still doesn't hold. [0] https://www.aviationtoday.com/2019/10/28/lion-air-737-max-final-accident-report-cites-aoa-sensor-mcas-as-contributing-factors/ https://www.aviationtoday.com/2019/10/28/lion-air-737-max-fi...