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.
On the contrary, I am not blaming Airbus. Just that anti-stall features aren't a bad idea. The pilots could have easily disabled the trim system—that happens for other reasons as well. The Lion Air flight before the one that crashed had a pilot in jump seat who pointed it out+
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And inexplicably, Lion Air 610 was allowed to fly again with the faulty sensor, and the incoming pilots not being told of what had happened, and didn't have a pilot who hit the cutout switch. Something that is part of routine training. It's much more than Boeing issues here.
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