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to now discard the patchwork and call it a new type rating anyway..
might as well diacard the 737max and go airbus instead.
clearly they had the better and more responsible gameplan.
Not true, but typical opiniated statement. Here's my opinionated statement:
No one involved with that aircraft program wouldn't give anything to be able to turn back the clock and change events leading to such horrific loss of life.
I work with a couple of US airlines closely, the pilots I know have stated that the flying characteristics of the 737max make it the best flying 737 yet built.
The MCAS design, operation and training was flawed (20-20 hindsight) and as in past flawed aircraft designs regardless of the manufacturer, it would have likely been addressed through Airworthiness Directives - which is exactly what AD's exist for. An improvement affecting MCAS (AOA disagree) was slated to be issued a month after the first incident but events overtook actions and looking back at evidence as has happened during the recertification efforts has produced all the damaging details Boeing has been exposed too.
Neither event should have happened. The Lyon Air aircraft should never have been flying, having been released to service with non resolved maintenance actions and falsified records. The flight crew on the Ethiopian aircraft had all of the information necessary to disable the system and return the aircraft safely but failed to act as trained with disastrous results.
No matter how you spin it, if the pilots on either aircraft had turned off the automation and flown the aircraft, 346 people would not have perished. The same thing can happen to Airbus, and they know it.
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