well one of those airlines got as many extra votes as Biden.
one of them did not have any crashes, nor did any Alaska or any of the other major 737 max customers.
do I think Boeing did the wrong thing, oh hell yes.
did the plane purchasing manager screw up when he did not get the redundant sensor, yep.
why was it optional ? I have no idea.
Leave the Gov alone, he is right, you are too politically correct to notice. I'm sure you are aware that our own Southwest Airlines has be operating the Max variant since 2017 with Zero...ZERO problems. Apparently the SW pilots knew how to manually fly an airplane before they transitioned to the Max. I guess the African pilots sent in their two Post Toasties box tops and a quarter to get their license and it did not include manual flight, nor the optional lesson on keeping track of the horizon. I'm sure you have strong opinions but they do not square with the facts, and I'm more than a little disappointed about that. You fell for the obfuscation put out by the DEI crowd to shield the pilots and go after a fat targel.
By Dominic Gates
Seattle Times aerospace reporter
In his opening statement Wednesday at the House Aviation subcommittee hearing on the 737 MAX in Washington, D.C., the lead Republican congressman blamed errors by the Indonesian and Ethiopian pilots for the two deadly MAX crashes in those countries.
“Pilots trained in the United States would have successfully been able to handle” the emergencies on both jets, said Rep. Sam Graves of Missouri, ranking member of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee. He added that preliminary reports about the accident “compound my concerns about quality training standards in other countries.”
Graves was repeating the main points in a report written by two pilots at a major U.S. airline that pointed to pilot error as “the most consequential factor” in both crashes.
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Boeing’s the deep pocket. SW Airlines flies approximately 800 737’s 3,375 times per day and has never had a major crash in their 53 year history. I admit I don’t have any expertise on this subject but, in my opinion, the facts I’ve read suggest the Ethiopian pilots had not been trained thoroughly to handle the defective software. If I’m right, Boeing is only 50% (approximately) responsible.