US refuses to ground Boeing 737 Max
Some points from personal experience from working at Boeing, family working at Boeing, and a close friend on the flight line for the 737-8;- not everything is back from the Lion Air incident, but internally there was strong confidence that a lack of pilot familiarity with the adjusted mechanics of MCAS contributed to the disaster- reproducing these failures has been extremely hard and has required a lot of cooperation with other airlines and agencies, and that has been difficult- training for the 737-8 and -9 was just short of non existent because in practice, these planes don’t fly differently.- since Lion Air, Boeing has been in somewhat of a “panic mode” but confidence isn’t that the airframe and engine mechanics are at fault- Lion and Ethiopian Air are near the bottom when it comes to maintenance and follow up with Boeing- as of this morning, it sounded like there are more uncertainties with this incident given that the pilot indicated troubles after take off, but I’m find it hard to back up that claim in what’s already been publishedThis isn’t about greed or the FAA being in the pocket of Boeing, it’s that there were already adjustments made to fix MCAS and the investigation from Ethiopia isn’t in yet.