Posted on 03/13/2019 2:18:13 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
President Donald Trump announced an emergency order from the Federal Aviation Administration on Wednesday grounding Boeing 737 Max jets in the wake of an Ethiopian Airlines crash Sunday and a Lion Air accident in October that together killed 346 people.
Trump's announcement came as the FAA faced mounting pressure from aviation advocates and others to ban flights of the planes pending the completion of investigations into the crash Sunday that killed 157 people and the accident in Indonesia in October in which 189 people perished.
. "We’re going to be issuing an emergency order of prohibition to ground all flights of the 737 Max 8 and the 737 Max 9 and planes associated with that line," Trump announced, referring to "new information and physical evidence that we’ve received" in addition to some complaints.
The FAA said the decision to ground the jets came after the agency found that the Ethiopian Airlines jet had a flight pattern before crashing very similar to the Lion Air flight path.
“It became clear that the track of the Ethiopian flight behaved very similarly to the Lion Air flight," said Steven Gottlieb, deputy director of accident investigation for the FAA.
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It saying there isn’t an issue with the auto pilot shortly after take off, but maybe a huge problem was with the Ethiopian and Indonesian polits’ poor training
The Euro media is all gloating over this, forgetting that the ink is just barely dry on the eulogy of their beloved A380.
I had to post your quote on Twitter, just to see if there’s a reaction from the H1-B mafia.
Cool. I’ve never done twitter though believe it or not. If any “classics” appear, post back here.
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