PPRuNe Forums - View Single Post - Ethiopian airliner down in Africa
View Single Post
Old 18th Mar 2019, 06:11
  #1862 (permalink)  
Nomad2
 
Join Date: Aug 2018
Location: Hyderabad
Posts: 1
Likes: 0
Received 1 Like on 1 Post
I don't think there will be a proper engineering fix for this.
What we are going to get is a patch, stuck on MCAS, which is itself a patch.

Boeing care about a few hundred deaths in countries other than America, only in as much as they affect its ability to make money.

The Max is a classic example of a design stretched far beyond the original concept, for reasons of expediency and profitability only.

A 'proper' fix would be to redesign the undercarriage and then relocate the engines, but of course that would require a complete re-design, and even though it's what they themselves would have preferred to have done from the start, it's too late now.

A software patch is what we are likely to get.

Last edited by Nomad2; 18th Mar 2019 at 06:29.
Nomad2 is offline