As someone who know the Aviation industry, especially the Aircraft Maintenance & Operations quite well. I offer a bit of sage advice. Never...and, I mean never listen to one word uttered by these Media folks....they have no idea what happened except “hearsay”...which in most cases turns out to be 100% incorrect or wrong.
A question that should be hammered home every day on the Media, is “Why did the First Officer (Co-Pilot) on the Ethiopian Airlines crashed B737MAX aircraft have only 200 active flight operating flying hours on the B737MAX aircraft.
Also...Why is the culture of cockpit operations of Lion Air & Ethiopian Airlines not being questioned. The USA, France, the United Kingdom, Canada, etc. has little trouble with their B737MAX aircraft.
I believe the answer to these fatal incidents is both technical shortcomings and human cockpit failure control breakdown. We shall see in time,...but I can assure you folks...you will learn nothing from CNBC or any other media input from around the world. Like everything they feed us peons,...they know very little of the truth or, they know no truth at all.
I only trust Boeing, the DOT and, our FAA for facts and truth and remedy...period.
Never...and, I mean never listen to one word uttered by these Media folks....they have no idea what happened except “hearsay”...which in most cases turns out to be 100% incorrect or wrong.
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The average media minion doesn’t know a wing flap from a mud flap.
I'm not so sure that is relevant. After all, how can he ever get more if you never let him in one. The relevant question here would be how many hours did the pilot have? Was it substantially more than 200?
“Why did the First Officer (Co-Pilot) on the Ethiopian Airlines crashed B737MAX aircraft have only 200 active flight operating flying hours on the B737MAX aircraft.”
When I flew my first trip on the B-737, my experience was about 30 hours in a 737 simulator and 25 hours in the airplane with a line check pilot. 200 hours doesn’t seem like much but it could take over two and a half months to accumulate. More important would be the background and type of flight education and experience prior to being hired by Ethiopian. My experience, Military trained, fighter and multi-engine “heavy” experience over a 6 year period of time, was more than this Co-pilot may have had.
Avoid third world airlines.