Originally Posted by
boofhead
It is annoying that so many posters on this forum have bought into the politically correct “Blame Boeing” excuse. [...]All these crews had everything they needed at hand to solve the problem and land their airplanes.
Maybe those pilots had everything they needed. Except adequate training. And one reason for that was that Boeing claimed no simulator training was necessary. Boeing claimed that all that was required was a small amount of differences training, that didn't mention MCAS at all. And nobody mentioned that the chance of a stab trim runaway is much higher on an MAX vs an NG, so no reinforcement training for trim runaways was provided before being allowed to fly a MAX.
I'm guessing that in a MAX a stab trim runaway is maybe 100 times more likely than an NG, maybe more. Maybe Boeing didn't know that before the first accident. But it's unlikely the didn't know that before the second accident. And it's even less likely they didn't know that AFTER the second accident. And, having that knowledge, they still tried to keep the aircraft flying, even after the second accident. That's disgusting, bordering on criminal.
So, please, don't cry for Boeing. They did the minimum required to pass the regulation requirements, focusing on profits, instead of having safety as their first priority, as they claim, and now they are reaping the reward.