Originally Posted by
Capn Bloggs
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/01/us...re.html?ref=us
Boeing's shirking. "Modern" jets cannot be crashed (via ever-reducing airpseed until the stall) in "normal law". It's about time Boeing modded the 777. And not having the feature in the 787 is just being bloody-minded. Cars have got every conceivable safety feature (and some); aeroplanes not. Why not?
The Asiana pilots stuffed it, but they weren't helped by the design.
What mod would have helped AF 447? Being 30+ knots slow on approach on a VFR/CAVU day isn't a design problem.