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[Kane]

This looks pretty bad for Boeing and pretty bad for the FAA:

https://www.seattletimes.com/business/b ... air-crash/

FAA engineers are quoted in here. This plane was certified in a rapid fashion with much of it delegated to Boeing itself in order to meet deadlines. The degree of movement on the horizontal tail was supposedly set to 0.6 but was perhaps changed without notifying FAA in time (or setting a date in the future for disclosure) to a full 2.5. On top of this, the risk ratings were seemingly kept outside of catastrophic on the one sensor reliance in order to avoid having to train pilots and thus save airlines millions on their purchases. And then, even after realizing what was wrong once we had the Indonesian crash, they opted to keep quiet instead of warning airlines/grounding planes.

Horrible decision making process. Can't believe the CEO appealed to Trump on this. This is going to leave a huge stain.

China must be happy.

Oh and btw:

https://thehill.com/policy/transportati ... ion-report

FBI has joined the investigation.

[spacemonkey]

Seems the plane is fine. It seems they just didn't have how to disengage the MCAS (auto trim control) in the checklist. Why?? Who knows.

[Kane]

If you read the links I attached you'll get a clue...

[Kane]

EU to use Huawei telecom equipment

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-eu-h ... SKCN1R32K3

Italy just flipped off the EU and partnered with China on the Belt and Road initiative

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/25/italy-j ... er-pm.html

I wonder if the US can at least eat up some of the market share that Europe will lose once it begins to fall apart?

[ToddStarnes]

GUILLOTINES

NOW

FWIW having done a lot of business with Boeing over the years, they are a garbage organization with horrible management, horrible inefficiencies, and a garbage culture.

ALSO it's pretty amusing that Boeing's downfall on this 737 is trying to emulate Airbus's trend toward automation. Used to be that Boeing's MO was let the pilot figure it out, whereas Airbus planes basically told you what to do for everything (very boring, very European). Not to sound Trumpian here, but automation has its limits.

I cannot imagine how they did not think to link MCAS with both AoA indicators. Can't be that much more expensive. Or tie it out with the altimeter so you're avoiding triggering a nose down pitch at low altitude.

I get stall evasion is more critical at low altitude but goddamn. Single sensor --> override nose down pitch? Goddamn.

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