Originally Posted by
Asturias56
Ahh yes it's all the pilots fault - not the people who carefully avoided building the plane to modern specs
Not all, no. Of course the company (and FAA) must take blame and severe flak for many of its background procedures and practices but MechEngr is quite right, the direct result of both crashes was entirely with botched and grossly unprofessional crew procedures. Both aircraft were perfectly flyable by a trained and disciplined crew until crew action/inaction rendered them not so.
To me the two incredible omissions in the entire fiasco were Indonesian's inexplicable absence of engineering reaction to the first event and then the apparent total unawareness of the Ethiopian crew of the nature of the problem (every other Boeing operator's crews, and probably 95% of the world's professional pilots too had dissected, researched, analysed and discussed the first accident exhaustively for months, yet Ethiopian Airlines allegedly hadn't promulgaed Boeing's essential publications on the subject to their pilots (how???), nor issued any guidance and the crew in question were apparently blissfully aware of what they were dealing with, quite apart from displayng some of the most astoundingly fundamental lapses of the most basic flying skills ever seen. Worst of all perhaps was that the Ethiopian crew seemed quite unaware of the MCAS problem - how could any Professional pilot in the world not have discussed that matter to the Nth degree? It was almost as if they were living in complete isolation from the rest of the aviation world, where was their interest, their curiosity, their basic survival instinct? Quite bizarre.
As said above the Max or whatever it's called this month is undoubtably the most tested and examined aircraft in history. There is no reason to be remotely concerned about it. Given suitable pilots, of course...