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Re:Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg Addresses the Ethiopian Airl... by mveety on Thursday April 04, 2019 @07:14PM (#19578055)
The problem with dealing with a departure stall is they’re extremely deadly, happen faster than a person can react to, and are in general unrecoverable all because of the lack of altitude. If it was the case that you could easily deal with a departure stall in the 737-MAX then they would have seen no need to implement MCAS.
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Re:Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg Addresses the Ethiopian Airl... by cjbprime on Thursday April 04, 2019 @09:25PM (#19578816)
MCAS only operates with flaps up, though, so it's actually irrelevant during most departure stalls at low altitude.
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Re:Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg Addresses the Ethiopian Airl... by stirlo on Thursday April 04, 2019 @07:25PM (#19578140)
Even if you could recover without MCAS Boeing still wouldn’t have released a version without it as the recovery procedure have needed new training.

Let’s not forget MCAS only exists to protect Boeing’s profits by avoiding a new type certification.

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Re:Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg Addresses the Ethiopian Airl... by subculture on Thursday April 04, 2019 @08:39PM (#19578549)
And if Boeing had originally went with a new type certification, the plane they'd build wouldn't need MCAS. The MAX can't exist without something like MCAS, can it?
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