Posted on 03/13/2019 11:45:22 AM PDT by WhoisAlanGreenspan?
Shares of Boeing tumbled Wednesday after President Donald Trump said he is grounding all Boeing 737 Max jets, following the second major crash within five months.
“Boeing is an incredible company. They are working very, very hard right now,” Trump told reporters in Washington on Wednesday.
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Good move. I think I read yesterday that Boeing said it would be a month or more until they distribute software update.
Interesting
Hopefully the NTSB and FAA haven’t been compromised.
Boeing contacted the FAA and suggested these aircraft be grounded. The manufacturer is not the regulatory authority, the FAA is.
After meeting with FAA officials, Trump announced the grounding. This affects US registered planes, other countries usually follow such FAA directives via their own aviation agencies.
Good obswrvation.
CC
That’s the model that becomes a ‘convertible,’ whether you want it to or not! ;)
“Aloha Airlines Flight 243 was a scheduled Aloha Airlines flight between Hilo and Honolulu in Hawaii. On April 28, 1988, a Boeing 737-297 serving the flight suffered extensive damage after an explosive decompression in flight, but was able to land safely at Kahului Airport on Maui. There was one fatality, flight attendant Clarabelle Lansing, who was ejected from the airplane. Another 65 passengers and crew were injured.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aloha_Airlines_Flight_243
The FAA grounded the 737;
The FAA is ordering the temporary grounding of Boeing 737 MAX aircraft (PDF) operated by U.S. airlines or in U.S. territory. The agency made this decision as a result of the data gathering process and new evidence collected at the site and analyzed today. This evidence, together with newly refined satellite data available to FAA this morning, led to this decision.
The grounding will remain in effect pending further investigation, including examination of information from the aircraft’s flight data recorders and cockpit voice recorders. An FAA team is in Ethiopia assisting the NTSB as parties to the investigation of the Flight 302 accident. The agency will continue to investigate.
https://www.faa.gov/news/updates/?newsId=93206
Very good description of MCAS;
https://theaircurrent.com/aviation-safety/what-is-the-boeing-737-max-maneuvering-characteristics-augmentation-system-mcas-jt610/
Agreed. Ground them till the dust settles. There aren’t that many in the U.S. anyway.
Shouldn’t the FAA announce this, and ground them IAW FAA protocols?
Weird.
and there is another accident, they will be looking at bankruptcy
Yes - it’s the previous generation. No problems.
This is pretty big news. Won’t be that difficult to get to the bottom of this straight away.
Hopefully you’re right.
Olivia de Havilland will be 103 on July 1.
I think these accidents were caused by the center fuel tank.
A caller on talk radio this am said there is a known-problem with the aircraft’s Angle of Attack indicator and autopilot. The indicator apparently can be inaccurate showing the plane is flying level when it’s heading slightly down. He said ‘skilled pilots’ or something like that know to disengage the autopilot and correct its flight path.
Thanks, I heard that.
Software in control of a big jet can be deadly.
They better go quick and find a group of OCD coders to fix the mess.
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