The article above is an irrelevant diatribe of falsehoods, misdirection and amateur sophistry.
Boeing DID NOT sell unsafe airplanes to Ethiopian...or any other airline or operator. Boeing DID incorrectly ASSUME that ALL operators of the new 737MAX airplane - would 'figure it out' on their own and the complicated training syllabus would be shortened. No one at Boeing thought that fatal crashes would be the result of flight crews not being able to 'resolve in-flight avionics issues'. Probably, they should have.
I am not defending the company - but I am defending the airplane. The 'MAX' is a spectacular new achievement in commercial aviation. It is a magnificent machine - BUT - it is also MUCH more complex than MOST people (airlines, etc,) thought. Flying this airplane MUST be learned with new vision, new procedures and new attitudes. Moving from the left seat of a previous 737 into the left seat of a new MAX - REQUIRES - a NEW SKILL SET in the protocols of electronic and computer logic.
Neither of the fatal 737 MAX crashes were the result of a damaged, flawed or unairworthy airframe or engines. The crashes occurred, specifically, because neither crew KNEW how to STOP the electronics from 'doing what they were programmed to do'. Both crashes should NEVER have happened. Both crashes resulted in the flight crews becoming 'spectators' and riding in an airworthy airplane until it impacted Earth.
Further, there are myriad circumstances, inter-company communications, regulatory confusion and just 'plain 'ol' myopic eagerness to get the airplanes into revenue - the public will never learn about.
Boeing has always built good airplanes - better than any other manufacturer; however, this ONE devastating 'launch' event has just about 'wiped out' all the 'atta boys' the company accumulated over the past 80 years.
The 737 MAX will go back into service, Boeing will continue to build them...and they will be flying 30 years from today; but the scale of this 'error in judgment' has not yet been measured and the memory of this 'corporate failure' will linger for years.
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