As a semi-recovered aerophobe, 737 Max saga is quite disturbing. The key seems to me, from a legal & moral pov, the failure to require training on a very new feature of the plane. Technologies can have unexpected, tragic results. Failure to tell pilots abt it? V hard to explain.
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Replying to @joshtpm
They should have said more to pilots but also the pilots should have been able to deal with it under ordinary training. United pilots encountered the glitch and were so unconcerned that it wasn’t even recorded as anything of an emergency. They just followed ordinary procedures.
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So it’s about much more than the plane but also the airlines.
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United bought all the extras.
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Replying to @Velcroski @joshtpm
That’s not the issue. Developed country airlines have been flying without upgrades no problem. An enormous number of flights. Existing procedures cover what happened, even though yes new behavior should have been better briefed. Lion Air flew a non-airworthy plane to begin with.
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“A source with knowledge of the aircraft told CNN that there is no mention of the MCAS in any of the plane's flight manuals, which are considered a bible of sorts to pilots and crew, and often used to trouble-shoot emergencies.”
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Yes, though they should have briefed pilots on the MCAS. Still that's one part of it. But ordinary procedures cover what happened. That was Boeing's argument for not retraining because behaving as properly trained would have worked. And it did, when it happened to US airlines.
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