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And we train them to do it.
What's a Muslim pilot's favorite flight assignment?A 737 Max...for Virgin Airlines!
US pilots have run through the excersice many rimes in flight simulators. I suspect these foreign countries lacked the training.
I may be a bit bias because I have been working for 32 years at the Renton Boeing plant where the MAX rolls out, but there have been 371 MAX deliveries with 43 airlines, mounting up hundreds of thousands of flights between them. It is no secret that the plane automatic elevator trim can get faulty AOA readings, and until the software is fixed pilots were supposed to be trained to override it. Turn off auto pilot, 2 jerks to the Left with the steering yoke and 1 to the right and the plane is now yours to fly again. US pilots have run through the excersice many rimes in flight simulators. I suspect these foreign countries lacked the training. Airbus was not without its new airplane disasters. Remember the A320 that crashed at an air show in France in 1988. The cause was faulty fly by wire software.
Hopefully, we won’t run into the irony of an accident with older aircraft being brought back into service, while this is sorted out.
The fleets are full of newer 737-800s and -900s, and we are still building them through April. One for every four MAX's. Still an outstanding aircraft that will fill the sky's for another decade or more.
Anyone want to guess what country makes the software in question? Blame Canada.
So we have two accidents on the other side of the world in third world countries, cause still unknown, out of hundreds of thousands of flights every year (so even if design, probability is virtually zero), and they shut them all down. Yeah, nothing smells weird here....
I am old enough to remember the DC 10 incidents in the late 70's. Over a 1,000 deaths. What is your magic number before we give this our full attention.
I remember hearing about the AA DC10 that crashed in Chicago.
That was due to a major screw up by the maintenance crew.