After the crash, Boeing and the FAA indicated that the plane's MCAS system may have triggered the anti-stall system and overrode the pilots' manual controls, thus pitching the plane's nose downward. Boeingtold The New York Timesthe pilots of Lion Ai...
To fix that state the pilots had to shut off the new system, but they didn’t know anything about MCAS and what it was supposed to do. The reason for refraining from telling the pilots about the MCAS module was the concern that it’d trigger mandatory pilot training, which would limit ...
As others have noted, forced removal (bumping) doesn’t get you killed the way bad engineering does. The timing of the rollout is stellar given that most people are still skittish about flying. I’m sure they can fill the planes with $39 fares but I think most of us will take a pa...
The FAA indicated that the updated FCC software with revised flight control laws would help ensure that a single AOA sensor that fails and sends erroneous data does not generate aManeuvering Characteristics Augmentation System (MCAS)activation. According to the FAA, the updated software would also co...