Posted on 03/13/2019 8:32:59 PM PDT by Simon Green
Ethiopia’s aviation authority is unable to read the black box recorders from the Boeing 737 Max plane that crashed Sunday, but a row is brewing over just where the flight recorders will be sent for analysis.
The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board is pushing to have its experts analyze the data and voice recorders, which were partly damaged, the Wall Street Journal reports, but Ethiopian authorities would prefer to work with the U.K.’s Air Accidents Investigation Branch to ensure that U.S. experts won’t have undue influence in the probe of the American-made plane.
Ethiopian Airlines CEO Tewolde GebreMariam told WSJ that the U.K., France and Germany were being considered as destinations for the black boxes, as was the European Union Aviation Safety Agency based in Cologne. He added that a decision would be made Wednesday.
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Let the UK do it.
Well hell, just have the Airbus folks analyze them and prepare a report. What could possibly go wrong?
Mechanical malfunction or pilot error? The black box will give us a good picture of why the plane went down.
the Ethiopians are worried about US corruption? wow. just wow.
Let the government that may have been conspiring with Deep State to get rid of Trump do it?!
I wouldn’t.
Add terrorism and sabotage to that list.
how, pray tell, would the ntsb be involved in any deep state effort to damage trump?
I think they are planing to sue. Not unexpected.
old news ... U.S. has already grounded their entire fleet of Boeing 737 MAX ... FAA, NTSB & Boeing all agree that this should be done ...
Can’t say that I blame them. Not too much, anyway.
Give it to Japanese experts to analyze. They have nothing at stake.
The crashes were in Africa and South Asia so you might expect some really cheap settlement. I hope the bug is nothing serious although Boeing had to do their homework after first crash.
Both crashes—Pilot error or the ROP.
In this case, I don’t see anything wrong with a joint investigation. We need answers.
Maybe it was one of those “empty center fuel tank” thingies.
Seems to be a lot of ideas toward to much reliance on the software controls and pilot interaction. As things advance the pilots have less and less control an ability to fly the aircraft without computer help. Having messed with computers for years, if I had to rely on them to get from A to B in my car, I would walk or ride one of the horses.
What prevents them from distributing the data to multiple teams for analysis and reporting?
Getting the data off the recorder seems to be the problem. So there are no copies to send around. Recorder was damaged.
US FAA should since they have the best understanding and relationship with Boeing. Include Brits on the team to remove the suspicion of any cover ups.
And don’t waste time.
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