Can that possibly be true? That doesn't sound remotely possible. How can a major new system affecting control be secretly installed and no airlines told about it or trained on it?
I'm ignorant on these things, but that just defies common sense.
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Its not a “Major new system.”
Its an old system renamed.
Systron-Donner getting richer by the day.
All commercial airliners have been remotely controllable for a long time.
None of the commercial airline industry pilots — of course the test pilots employed by Boeing knew.
“We’re p*ss*d that Boeing didn’t tell the companies and the pilots didn’t get notice obviously, as well,” president of Southwest Airlines’ pilot union Capt. Jon Weaks said to the Wall Street Journal. “But what we need now is… to make sure there is nothing else Boeing has not told the companies or the pilots.”