Poor maintenance or a Kaboom?
Did they ever find out what went wrong with the LION Air crash that also used the same plane? Like that one, this one also had weird speed readings.
737-800 MAX
Mechanic empties his pockets upon returning home and wonders “Why do I have these nuts and bolts?”
Traveling from $h!thole to $h!thole…you take your chances.
I think Southwest recently added 800 MAX to their fleet.
If the world had the green new deal and everyone traveled by horseback, these tragedies would never happen
Commercial pilots these days spend very little time actually "flying" the plane. You'll hear the autopilot disengage alarm most times just as the plane crosses the threshold on landing, and the computer is given control almost immediately after takeoff. So a pilot with 6000 hours of flying time actually has very little of that in stick time.
Combine that with the full computerization of the plane and pilots are struggling to react to in-flight emergencies -- Air France, Indonesia, and Ethiopia now being prime examples.
It's a Catch 22, though. I spend a lot of time in the air. I would prefer the computer systems flying the plane in most instances. But our pilots need more time on the stick -- and in simulators -- than before.
fyi for future posts - an airliner going down isn’t “chit chat”, it belongs in News forum
“As many as 50 delegates are believed to have been on the plane heading to the UN Environment Assembly in Nairobi, which begins tomorrow.”
