Re:Plane Tests Must Use Average Pilots, NTSB Says After 737 ...
by olliej on Friday September 27, 2019 @11:49AM
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Boeing did though - they decided unintentional trim was the same as a flight system that was deliberately hidden from the pilots was just a “trim” issue.
They needed to classify it as a ordinary trim problem because otherwise they would have needed to have testing for it, which would have meant acknowledging MCAS existed.
The evidence that it wasn’t just a normal trim issue is the second crash, which occurred when pilots already knew about the design fault. When it turned out that it wasn’t physically possible for a pilot to take the corrective actions.
Boeing is still trying to blame the pilots for their own decision to fraudulently sell an unsafe aircraft.
They needed to classify it as a ordinary trim problem because otherwise they would have needed to have testing for it, which would have meant acknowledging MCAS existed.
The evidence that it wasn’t just a normal trim issue is the second crash, which occurred when pilots already knew about the design fault. When it turned out that it wasn’t physically possible for a pilot to take the corrective actions.
Boeing is still trying to blame the pilots for their own decision to fraudulently sell an unsafe aircraft.