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Old 16th Mar 2019, 20:00
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Originally Posted by reamer
If it turns out to be mcas for this flight loss and the stab trim switches are found to be in the on position then the pilots are 100% to blame for all those lost lives.
Tosh. The manufacturer has produced a sub-standard product, pushing enhanced responsibility on aircrews. There are many layers of responsibility here, the first being Boeing’s insistence on polishing-off a 50+ year-old aircraft by adding bigger engines bringing questionable stability and mitigating it all with a poorly thought-through ‘safety system’ (MCAS).
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