Boeing Resisted Pilots’ Calls for Aggressive Steps on 737 Max

Re:Boeing Resisted Pilots’ Calls for Aggressive Steps on 737... by FabHK on Wednesday May 15, 2019 @02:43PM (#19922434)

> Sure there may be super pilots (like we have super programmers that can read assembly stack traces) or lucky pilots but you don't want to excuse Boeing crimes by the fact that some pilots were lucky.

Agreed, but don't write (as GP did) that "there is nothing any pilot could have done so close to the ground".

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Re:Boeing Resisted Pilots’ Calls for Aggressive Steps on 737... by ulfw on Wednesday May 15, 2019 @11:10PM (#19925838)

The "there is nothing any pilot could have done so close to the ground" was alluding to the Ethiopian accident. They were a mere thousand feet from the ground.

It's exponentially easier to recover from a lot of issues, even a stall, when you have 40,000 feet of distance (and thus a lot more time) to play with rather than not even a thousand feet off the ground.

"At 8:39, as the jet reached an altitude of 8,100 feet above sea level, just 450 feet above ground, its nose began to pitch down"

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-final-minutes-of-ethiopian-...

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Re:Boeing Resisted Pilots’ Calls for Aggressive Steps on 737... by simion314 on Wednesday May 15, 2019 @03:43PM (#19922998)

You are mathematically correct, it is impossible to prove that, even the case with the third pilot is not a contra-example because it probably was not the exact same issue.

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