The 737 Max is a brilliant airplane that was put to its limits of present technology. It is a good airplane. The concept of one Individual Angle of Attack controlling the computer is insanity. One device with out a backup system could kill you. It did! Boeing makes the finest aircraft in the world. I do not understand why they did this.
I would also suspect inferior pilot training from Boeing on the new aircraft. Yes it was just a new version of a 737 but in reality it was a new aircraft with different computer systems.
If pilots really understood the system they would have just pulled two switches and turned it off and flew it by hand.
The pilots in command of those two airplanes that went in were competent pilots. That means they were not properly trained on this aircraft. Boeing and the airlines own this.
Well put! Thank you. Boeing has been the best at what they do, but they caved at the altar of short term profits...which among other things included the challenge posed by the latest Airbus in 2011. That is what Rush Limbaugh is getting at. They were even in the middle of working on redesigning a whole new plane to compete, but didn’t want to deal with the delays such an endeavor would pose. Hence just adjusting the pre-existing 737.
I wish there could be a reset for the company now. MBGA, Make Boeing Great Again.
“The pilots in command of those two airplanes that went in were competent pilots. “
If they were competent they wouldn’t have crashed ...