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> There's no particular reason why those 350-odd dead in two crashes couldn't have happened to an US airline. True, but in practice, not so American pilots ha
by raverbashing 2y ago
> There's no particular reason why those 350-odd dead in two crashes couldn't have happened to an US airline.
True, but in practice, not so
American pilots had two things for them here:
1) more aware of maintenance needs of speed sensors (and probably better SOPs as well regarding disagreeing sensors) and
2) more experience with flying manually (on older 737s even) and acting correctly if MCAS went haywire
- jowea 2y agoIsn't a big part of the issue for the first incident that pilots didn't know MCAS even existed?
- raverbashing 2y agoYes, but there existed a procedure for "Runaway Trim" (This showed up in Google but I think the 1st answer, rather than OP is right here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19416050 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19416050 - of course now we have the FAA report)