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Boeing found another software bug on the 737 Max
Boeing is working to fix yet another software bug on its 737 Max, Bloomberg reports. The glitch involves an indicator light for the "stabilizer trim system," which helps raise and lower the plane's nose. The light was turning on when it wasn't supposed to. Boeing is already resolving the problem, and it still expects the 737 Max to resume flying by mid-2020. But this is the third software flaw to be discovered and reported since the 737 Max crashes, which killed 346 people.… (www.engadget.com) المزيد...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
Go watch the MAX-8 vertical take off and power reduction to zero gravity video. Unless there is a bunch of smoke and mirrors, I do not feel like we are getting the entire story. I'm not saying that Boeing hasn't effed-up with what they have allowed from a quality control standpoint, but I have a hard time thinking that we are dealing with a Soviet-type maintenance issue here. Spilled coffee that shuts down engines on the A350 sounds just as bad, to me.
Flight Safety Detectives have 3 interesting podcasts on the Lion Air 737 MAX accident. Far different story from what is reported (They are reading directly from FDR and Cockpit Recorder transcripts. Make your own decisions, but do so from a position of knowledge and insight :-)
https://www.podbean.com/eu/pb-w9bnw-cfcd9b
https://www.podbean.com/eu/pb-w9bnw-cfcd9b
Thank you very much for posting this. I listened to all the Lion Air podcasts as I worked today. Good God Almighty does it put a new light on the Lion Air crash. No CRM, no situational awareness, no aircraft awareness, the FO seemingly being completely incompetent, the A/C being poorly maintained and the maintainers falsifying records, crews and maintainers ignoring no go faults on previous flights... you could go on and on.
MACS has a role in the incident, yes. However, it seems like one more niggling background distraction on a bird not fit for flight, and sadly the crew drove a flyable A/C into the ground.
MACS has a role in the incident, yes. However, it seems like one more niggling background distraction on a bird not fit for flight, and sadly the crew drove a flyable A/C into the ground.
I just listened to that podcast. It was interesting!
It begs the question as to just how "idiot proof" aircraft designs are expected to be. Regardless of the regulatory procedure failures discovered, does the particular case discussed in the podcast hold Boeing to an unrealistic standard for guaranteeing multiple crew and equipments failures won't result in an accident?
Why isn't anyone mentioning the thousands of successful MAX flights completed by mostly U.S. pilots? I think most travelers that have flown on a MAX will do it again when the planes are released.
I know my wife and I will.
I know my wife and I will.