Originally Posted by
rog747
Re the Ethiopian accident - It has been inferred (both officially and unofficially?) that a bird strike immediately after take off likely tore off the AoA vane which in turn then started the chain of events where MCAS extreme ND inputs lead to the crash a few minutes later.
In these days of fantastic Forensics that we now have, I am puzzled that any evidence of the vane and/or the bird where not found along the aircraft track...
Surely as these tragic and deadly events have now caused such a huge impact on civil aviation that no Forensic sweep(s) seem to have been undertaken at no expense...
Just my tuppence, but if a bird strike was suspected soon after the crash why was this not an imperative, nor a return to the scene to sweep again?
My personal opinion is there was NO bird strike, or is there any evidence on the day or week of a bird strike only a vane failure.
And a shift of blame to a bird - with zero evidence.
but known AoA unit failures & illegal repairers.