Originally Posted by
empire4
I find it amusing that without any actual evidence of any aircraft defect, and only a bit of radar data that also represents a stall, the panic button was pressed
Seriously, no evidence???
Please explain the 2 aircraft crashes in short succession, a new Boeing cost savings design, cobbled onto an older design to avoid going through costly re-approvals, with Boeing's proven "schedule before safety" track record, and a new MCAS system that Boeing tried to hide, prior to these issues, that steers the aircraft downwards with no indication or notification.
Only the FAA/Boeing/USA could continue to deny there is an issue to save face, and ward off mass defections to Airbus.
At least other countries around the world are taking their safety obligations seriously and grounding it.
This just screams B787 all over again. The future whistle-blower exposes by frustrated engineers overruled by bean-counters and project managers in the future will be very interesting indeed.
Originally Posted by
empire4
I'd have a nice little chuckle if the end result is pilot error and nothing to do with the aircraft.
Seems Boeing are already trying this on, by declaring the procedures to disable this "undisclosed" system behavior are documented somewhere deep within their manuals, but it seems they "forgot" to tell anybody about this until after the crashes in typical CYA mode.