Originally Posted by
Speed of Sound
With the FAA under fire for seeing it’s role as lobbying on behalf of Boeing as much as being an impartial regulator, it needs to stay well away from EASA and let Boeing deal with certification outside the US itself.
Well that's one way of looking at it.
Let's wait and see. I'll be amazed if, in due course, the grounding isn't lifted simultaneously by the FAA and EASA on an agreed date.
If not, which do you think will be first ?
Originally Posted by
Just the fax maam
"There is no evidence that the pilot’s yoke trim switch failed to work any time that it was used."
Oh contraire, there is more than sufficient evidence to demonstrate that, on the balance of probability, the trim system was unable to overcome (in the ANU moment) the AND aerodynamic forces present at that time.
Could you quote some of this evidence, please ?
All I've seen are indications that manual (wheel) trim can't provide enough mechanical advantage to move the stab back from extreme AND, no suggestion that electric trim (if enabled) couldn't.
Oh and it's "au contraire", by the way.
