[Moonman62]

What we had in the two downed airplanes was a textbook failure of airmanship. In broad daylight, these pilots couldn’t decipher a variant of a simple runaway trim, and they ended up flying too fast at low altitude, neglecting to throttle back and leading their passengers over an aerodynamic edge into oblivion.

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I’ve been saying this all along, but people were instructed by the Fake News to hate and fear Boeing.

[ronnie raygun]

The left and its media arm look for the evil inanimate object to blame in this case, the evil Boeing. God forbid they accuse the black pilots of being to stupid to realize their situation and correct it or even accuse them of inexperience.

[ReformedBeckite]

....I’ve been saying this all along, but people were instructed by the Fake News to hate and fear Boeing....

If you are correct, my gut feeling is Boeing has probably been giving alot more money to Republican party and hardly any to nothing to the Democrat party. That is how the fake news media does it, they promote the companies that give to the Democrat party with endless commercials and advertisements while trashing those companies favoring the Republican party.

[Rockingham]

Despite major differences in aerodynamics, the 737 Max was sold to the airlines by Boeing as flying like the familiar 737. A sophisticated sensor and computer system was thought to assure such an experience for the flight crew. Remarkably, a safety package was made an expensive option -- one that cash-strapped Third World airlines rarely chose.

Early on, skilled American pilots who trained on the 737 Max recognized that its sensors and computer system could sometimes behave in a way that misled pilots and put the aircraft at risk. Good airmanship and quick reactions were then required to avoid disaster. Boeing never remedied the risk or explained it to pilots and customer airlines.

Starting about fifteen or twenty years ago, shop talk at a party among airline pilots I knew turned against Boeing as getting sloppy and outdated, with sometimes cheap and inferior build quality when compared to Airbus models. The pilots correctly anticipated that Boeing was going to have loads of trouble in building the 787.

Boeing has lost its way, looking to profit through marketing and financial strength instead of engineering quality. The 737 MAX is a fiasco. Blaming the pilots who died flying it will do little to remedy Boeing's problems.

[VTenigma]

Now it emerges that the latest iteration of the A320 has a similar issue. The New A320 also has the LEAP engine. But Boeing is the only manufacturer being demonized by the media.