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Boeing Withheld Information on 737 Model, According to Safety Experts and Others
Posted on 11/12/18 at 10:35 pm
Posted on 11/12/18 at 10:35 pm
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Boeing withheld information about potential hazards associated with a new flight-control feature suspected of playing a role in last month’s fatal Lion Air jet crash, according to safety experts involved in the investigation, as well as midlevel FAA officials and airline pilots. The automated stall-prevention system on Boeing 737 MAX 8 and MAX 9 models—intended to help cockpit crews avoid mistakenly raising a plane’s nose dangerously high—under unusual conditions can push it down unexpectedly and so strongly that flight crews can’t pull it back up. Such a scenario, Boeing told airlines in a world-wide safety bulletin roughly a week after the accident, can result in a steep dive or crash—even if pilots are manually flying the jetliner and don’t expect flight-control computers to kick in. That warning came as a surprise to many pilots who fly the latest models for U.S carriers. Safety experts involved in and tracking the investigation said that at U.S. carriers, neither airline managers nor pilots had been told such a system had been added to the latest 737 variant—and therefore aviators typically weren’t prepared to cope with the possible risks. “It’s pretty asinine for them to put a system on an airplane and not tell the pilots who are operating the airplane, especially when it deals with flight controls,” said Capt. Mike Michaelis, chairman of the safety committee for the Allied Pilots Association, which represents about 15,000 American Airlines pilots. “Why weren’t they trained on it?”
This post was edited on 11/12/18 at 10:48 pm
Posted on 11/12/18 at 10:40 pm to RedRifle
Well that seems a tad shady.
Posted on 11/12/18 at 10:46 pm to RedRifle
Skynet is already trying to kill us.
Posted on 11/12/18 at 10:48 pm to RedRifle
Not the company it used to be
Posted on 11/12/18 at 10:51 pm to RedRifle
Well damn.... that's not good.... but to be fair me and my plebeian friends at work figured something like this was the problem with the max series. Planes are coming out to fast without proper testing.
Posted on 11/12/18 at 10:52 pm to RedRifle
This news is a little much for me to handle, especially when I think about the Embraer that decided to take its pilots on a terrifying joy ride today.
Posted on 11/12/18 at 10:53 pm to MikeyFL
They uhhh.... just needed to burn some fuel
Posted on 11/12/18 at 10:56 pm to LSURussian
When I linked it it said “breaking“
Posted on 11/13/18 at 8:53 am to dupergreenie
The good thing is that it is now public so they will work to fix it
Posted on 11/13/18 at 8:56 am to RedRifle
quote:I don’t even understand why this system is necessary.
The automated stall-prevention system on Boeing 737 MAX 8 and MAX 9 models—intended to help cockpit crews avoid mistakenly raising a plane’s nose dangerously high
Posted on 11/13/18 at 8:59 am to GeauxxxTigers23
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The automated stall-prevention system on Boeing 737 MAX 8 and MAX 9 models—intended to help cockpit crews avoid mistakenly raising a plane’s nose dangerously highquote:
I don’t even understand why this system is necessary.
Isn't it how that pilot crashed that Air France flight into the Atlantic a few years ago? By the time they figured out that the pilot was the reason why they were diving, it was too late.
Posted on 11/13/18 at 9:08 am to GeauxxxTigers23
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I don’t even understand why this system is necessary.
bro, do you even Colgan? a couple of low time bug smashers crash so we all have to be protected from ourselves
Posted on 11/13/18 at 9:10 am to GetCocky11
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Air France flight into the Atlantic
I believe that accident was caused by a faulty Pitot Tube.
Posted on 11/13/18 at 9:10 am to GetCocky11
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Isn't it how that pilot crashed that Air France flight into the Atlantic a few years ago?
no
Posted on 11/13/18 at 9:17 am to GetCocky11
Posted on 11/13/18 at 9:18 am to RedRifle
It was supposed to be a big prank. Couldn't spoil the punchline with an early reveal.
Posted on 11/13/18 at 9:22 am to RedRifle
I hope you sold your stock before posting.
Posted on 11/13/18 at 9:31 am to 777Tiger
quote:Hows the airline industry looking these days?
bro, do you even Colgan? a couple of low time bug smashers crash so we all have to be protected from ourselves
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