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The 737 Max crash wasn’t because of scarce flight hours. It was caused because the training procedures didn’t train pilots on how to recover from MCAS failure (
by jdavis703 5y ago
The 737 Max crash wasn’t because of scarce flight hours. It was caused because the training procedures didn’t train pilots on how to recover from MCAS failure (and ultimately because MCAS itself was flawed). Has any transportation safety board cited flight hours as a cause in any of the crashes?
- lstodd 5y agoThe thing is, guys who actually knew what's a runaway stabilizer condition feels like managed to cope. It's the ones who didn't didn't. Somehow I think this is actually related to the hours flown. Not entirely, but should we take these chances? edit: Okay, that was exaggerated. Still, without regular practice the only thing there will be is more of perfectly avoidable crashes. We cannot trade people lives for some theoretical reduction in emissions.
- jdavis703 5y agoHow common of an event is runaway stabilizer on a commercial flight though? Of course it happens, but rarely. If we’re talking about practicing for rare events a few hours of simulator time that puts pilots through various crises would be more useful than 100 hours of uneventful flying.
- AdamJacobMuller 5y ago> It was caused because the training procedures didn’t train pilots on how to recover from MCAS failure I disagree only in that the focus should be at a higher level. Boeing was so focused on making sure that the 737MAX would be the same type rating as the 737, despite it having very different handling characteristics, that they developed things like MCAS which made it kinda-sorta like a normal 737, the only way that would succeed is if things like "MCAS failure" did not exist and therefore did not require training. It's not that they didn't properly train people on MCAS, it's the fact that MCAS shouldn't have existed in the first place.