RUH-ROh..........................
“a glitch in a jet stabilisation system.”
a glitch....thats no way to describe something that may have taken the lives of 189 souls.
Due to poor maintenance or a manufacturing problem? Time will tell.
How about a little more detail and focus on THIS!?!?!?!?!
This is a pretty big deal, especially if it accompanied by faults in the cockpit displays!!!!
Because, if your stabilization system isn't working properly, you would look to your displays to determine how best to respond!!!!!!
An engineer and a technician from Boeing have joined inspectors in Indonesia to help with the probe. So far, no other country is carrying out wholesale inspections.
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My guess is that’s because the root cause is maintenance neglect by Lion Air.
Look up Eastern Airlines 401. A single burnt out light caused a plane crash. Even though I have never flown and probably never will, there is only one plane I would get on and that is a 777. Outside of pilot error it has a perfect safety record.
“cockpit display problems”
Wouldn’t there be two sets of displays, one for the pilot and one for the co-pilot. My guess is that they are as independent as possible from each other.
When you turn all control over to computers and software then it is inevitable that at some-point something is going to go wrong and people are going to die.
“Stephen Wright, an aviation expert at the University of Leeds, told AFP that the faults identified by the transport ministry in the two other Boeing jets were “very minor.” “
Fly by Wire problem.
Auto-pilot goes haywire from erroneous input data, pilot takes over but computer sets safety limits the pilot can’t overcome.
Airspeed read as too fast, auto-pilot cuts power, pilot takes over, tries to increase speed but safety limits built into the computer refuses to allow it.
Stalls due to attitude, falls.
Just a guess.
Boeing should completely move out of Renton where libs make the planes.
-PJ
WOW ! Who makes that engine ? Rolls Royce or Boeing ?
And what is up with the Display ?
Somebody going to get smacked...
If all this is true.
IIRC at least one or two Indonesian airlines have been banned from European airspace because of major safety issues.Before blaming Boeing this airline,and the crew,should be checked top to bottom.