Originally Posted by
MajorLemond
This is Absolutely justified. I too am a little surprised that China is the first country to do this, but politics aside, this is a brand new "state of the art" 737 that's had 2 crashes in the same phase of flight literally months apart. Both brand new aircraft fresh off the production line. All new aircaft go through teething problems but this problem has cost 340 lives.
While we don't know the cause at the present time, it is extremely concerning.
I mean, as a pilot how would you honestly feel walking down the aerobridge getting on one of these things? No thanks.
It's puzzling that EASA and FAA have not grounded it as well. And to those saying "we must first know the reason to justify grounding", I deeply disagree. E.g. the reason for Comet crashes was not understood as well (square windows and resultant forces at the edges). Should they just kept them flying and crashing saying "well it's a perfctly flying airplane, there should not be reason for them to just fall apart mid-air"?
Ground and make sure it's not mcas related first. If it's something completely unrelated, lift the ban if it seems appropriate. In the mean time, everybody is gambling with people's lives.