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Is the final accident report out yet? I wonder if they are gonna blame the pilots for failing to handle a runaway trim situation regardless of what caused it (t
by rafale 5y ago
Is the final accident report out yet? I wonder if they are gonna blame the pilots for failing to handle a runaway trim situation regardless of what caused it (the infamous MCAS in this situation). It's a memory checklist item, they should have cut the electric trim motors and trimmed manually (assuming the plane hasn't gone in a deep dive at that point,the forces on the control surface would make it impossible to trim manually).
- throwaway0a5e 5y agoThey're probably gonna blame the airlines, Boeing and the pilots. Planes don't crash unless damn near every party involved does something wrong. Boeing has a responsibility to not build hard to operate junk. Failing that the airlines have a responsibility to train the pilots on said junk. Failing that the pilots still have a responsibility to to understand how the junk works. They probably will minimize the blame on the pilots since both Boeing and the airlines were pretending that the new plane was the same as the old plane for regulatory compliance reasons and in light of that messaging you can't really expect people to learn about the differences themselves. What they won't blame at all but probably deserves a mention is a long and expensive type certification process that provided the incentives for all the dominoes on the Boeing and airline side of things to line up the way they did. Nobody at Boeing or the airlines was attempting to achieve this outcome. They were trying to achieve a marginally better 737 within the bounds of the existing regulation.