Is someone intentionally sabotaging them or are they getting crappy Chinese parts?
in light of all previous Airbust issues
2018: If it isn’t a Boeing, I aint going
Fast forward to 2019: If it’s a Boeing, I aint going
Religion of Peace mechanics at Newark Liberty?
“Is someone intentionally sabotaging them or are they getting crappy Chinese parts?”
No...
Just a normal day. Things break, crews are trained for it.
The difference now is that 737’s are in the media eye, so every issue is going to get headlines for a while.
Turkish Airlines was a matter, it seems of a bad sensor combined with autonomous controls deciding to ignore the pilot and nosing down the plane against the pilots commands, because its sensor data was telling it it was in a stall... Apparently the 737-Max8 Pilots were not ever properly informed the new plane would do this... so the pilot had no idea what was happening or how to shut it off.
Because the Ethiopian Airlines crash seems to share similar details, crash shortly after take off, but unlike the Turkish flight, no known issues prior to the takeoff... there is a concern they may have a related underlying issue... Possibly with the semi autonomous systems.
This one sounds like an engine failure, which is a completely different beast. This is a completely different plane model as well.
Understand the 737 is the most flown commercial jet on the planet, at any given moment it is estimated there are something like 1200 or 1300 of them in the air at any given time around the world.
The two crashes of the 737-Max8s may be little more than coincidental.. but certainly are disconcerting and it should be investigated, but reality is planes have issues and get diverted.. most never make much of a note... but of course now any 737 that has any problem will get more attention than it should...
Gotta keep the masses riled up to get clicks.