I’m no expert on aviation but I can’t help but notice that the only two crashes were aircraft being piloted by Third World airlines. I’d be willing to bet that I’m not the only Freeper who’s ever had a white knuckle flight on a Third World airline but I can guarantee that there’s a huge difference between Lufthansa and Air Malawi.
Boeing wanted you to think that, but if you watch the HBO movie "Downfall: The Case Against Boeing" you will find out the real story.
Sorry but had nothing to do with the pilots being third world. Boeing tried that lie while trying to cover up their malfeasance.
Boeing lied, lied to pilots, lied to regulators lied to everyone.
They are murders, period.
My recollection is that the problem stemmed from having a single sensor that detected pitch or wind speed, and that sensor controlled the automatic trim system they installed to compensate for the bigger engines on the 737 Max.
When the sensor failed, the elevator trim started pushing the nose down, and the forces on it became so great that you could not manually correct it.
It should have had a redundant sensor to make certain there wasn't a single point of failure that could cause this issue.
The MCAS system was just supposed to assist pilots on takeoff by compensating for the larger engines installed on the 767 Max. They did not have to have it and they could turn it off.
In one of the crashes, they did turn it off and sort of regained control of the plane. Then they turned it back on, and it screwed the elevator trim further to push the nose down.
It was pretty much a design error, and lack of training people to deal with the new MCAS system.
A lot of people blamed Boeing's HB-1 Visa engineers/programmers from India. I don't know if that was even a factor, but Boeing should have caught this problem before releasing the aircraft to the airlines.
The question is which airline received the 787 max 8 plane first? The Americans may have gotten it later. So the American pilots may have already been aware of the flaw.