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Old 25th Mar 2019, 19:52
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Originally Posted by island_airphoto
https://www.aopa.org/news-and-media/...-boeing-crisis
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When the Lion Air crash of a Boeing 737 MAX 8 revealed the existence of a flight control system operating in the background, which Boeing and the FAA had not revealed when the MAX 8 was introduced, pilots felt betrayed, as if Boeing had secretly abandoned its guiding design principle and lost faith in pilot skills. In actuality, Boeing’s trust in pilot skills likely buoyed a system design and roll-out strategy that appears to be at the root of two recent MAX 8 crashes. Boeing’s critical mistake may be in assuming a worldwide standard of pilot competency that doesn’t exist.
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I ran across this today. One theory is that of course American pilots are good enough to deal with runaway trim, so Boeing figured no big deal
Here we are 15 days and 2500+ posts into a thread about an accident for which we have not yet seen the FDR info nor heard anything about the crew conversations from the CVR and we are already saying that system design and roll-out strategy appears to be at the root of that accident?! We need that data before any sense of the root cause can be put forth as anything other then conjecture. Without the Lion Air accident we would at this point have no idea what brought the Ethiopian 737MAX down. As a result of having had the Lion Air accident many people seem to assume that the Ethiopian event was a repeat.

Can anyone with direct knowledge of what the Ethiopian FDR reveals describe specifically how and why then think this accident is similar to the Lion Air accident in a manner that would point to "system design and roll-out strategy" as having played a role?
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