Originally Posted by
mickk
If 300 Toyotas crashed and killed the occupants, the model of vehicle would be taken off the road.
Toyotas crash every day, as do other makes and models. Only when a consistent fault in the car is identified as a cause across a large number of accidents would action be taken and even then it would most likely be a recall and fix (which is unlikely to pick up all runing cars of that model). Ford Explorer rollover deaths due to the car/tire (take your own side) design are alleged to be in the hundreds of, with thousands of serious injuries. Has the explorer ever been "taken off the road" ?
I just dont understand how this type of a/c can continue to fly as if nothing happened when 300 people have died. I have a feeling theres another disaster on the way.
We don't know (and may never know) what caused the crash. It may be something completely unrelated to the aircraft model. Perhaps we should be banning thunderstorms in the ITCZ ?
Secondly even if the cause
was an issue with this aircraft model, we don't know what the probability of recurrence is to decide whether grounding the fleet is the right response.
Has the 777 been grounded ? They fall out of the sky with both engines rolled back, remember (and we still don't have final report on why - in fact the silence is...). Well, one 777 fell out of the sky anyway - do you have your "feeling" another one is "on the way", or does that feeling just apply to one particular aircraft manufacturer ?