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
Yes. Also, the idea to change the fundamental design of one of the most reliable and safest planes in history and yet NOT to call it a new plane is just mind blowingly stupid. But they didn't want to call it a new plane because it would have required them to do other things.
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Replying to @jgkoomey
Totally. Given the binary competition between Boeing and Airbus, I get the sense that there's liability and reputational consequences to this people haven't really begun to fathom.
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Replying to @joshtpm
In the future, people are going to study this episode along with the Challenger explosion (among others) as case studies in how NOT to deal with high risk systems.
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Replying to @jgkoomey
Agreed. And just in confidence terms, I just flew on a pre-Max 737. As you say, perhaps the safest plane in history, or near to it. But like another new Boeing plane or refurbed one? Definitely going to try to airbus going forward.
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Also Airbus is way more automated than Boeing.
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Pretty much.
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Lol. Aviation is hard to avoid for anyone into software safety.
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