Originally Posted by
phantomsphorever
Hard to believe that there are still people out there, that claim that the whole MCAS debacle is down to badly trained 3rd world pilots.
Even more unbelievable that the FAA and other bodies of airworthiness around the world would ground a whole fleet for nearly 2 years for no reason.
I guess many years from now the US history books will say that Boeing fell due to inkompetent behaviour of pilots from other nations and that all of that was instigated by the European countries that wanted to push Airbus ahead - despite being the inferior solution.
They failed to follow any portion of the stall warning procedure prior to completing all the triggers for MCAS. How badly trained must pilots be to be considered a part of the problem? The airline had tripled in size in a decade. This isn't a 3rd world problem - it appears to be a corporate greed problem of not spending sufficient time building a safety culture in order to build the size of the airline as rapidly as possible, but with the added twist that the CAA, the airline, and the training, was all done by the government. They chose to sell tickets rather than exhaustively train their pilots.
The 2 years was trying to figure out what to do about pilots performing the opposite to every required step.