Helpful (2) Reply A220HubandSpoke Diamond January 9, 2024, 8:15 am The MAX is the DC-10 of out time. Give it another decade and the plane will somehow lead to the crash of an A380 Helpful Reply Mary Guest January 9, 2024, 9:09 pm Exactly what I was thinking as I’ve been wa...
It's impossible to separate these questions from the fact that the FAA knew the 737 Max was dangerous after the first crash (but kept it flying) and then refused to immediately yank the aircraft after the second crash, doing so only after significant international pressure from other...
Whether the cautionary tale of Boeing 737 MAX is a question of ethical engineering – doing things right the first time, making damned sure mission-critical systems work with five nines (99.999 percent) or higher reliability with built-in redundancy – remains an open question. “It may just b...
In January, an Alaska Airlines flight lost a door plug mid-flight. Later that month, loose parts were found on grounded 737 Max 9 planes. Inspections, audits and investigations followed—and so did tumbling consumer confidence. Can Boeing be trusted again? The most recent incidents have set th...
The point he is making is that there have been multiple instances where the Boeing 737 MAX automation has failed where the flight crew has responded to the problem correctly and landed the aircraft without further issue, including the Lion Air flight into Jakarta before the flight 610 crash. Ho...
Earlier this year, when the Justice Department brought its criminal case against Boeing in connection with the crash of the two Boeing 737 MAX airliners that killed 346 people, federal prosecutors brought the case in federal court in Ft. Worth, Texas. ...
The crash of two 737 MAX passenger aircraft in late 2018 and early 2019, and subsequent grounding of the entire fleet of 737 MAX jets, turned a global spot