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All of the 737 Max litigation is BS.
Did you see any crashes in the US?
No.
Why not?
Because the pilots here are well trained and not idiots
All those foreign pilots needed to do to save themselves and everyone relying on them is flip the two stab cut-out switches on the center pedestal, push the nose over some to unload the stab trim actuator jackscrew, and manually crank the stab trim wheel back to nose up.
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That’s hubris. There’s a little bit of truth to it, but it’s a vast oversimplification. Yes, It’s easy to do Once you know about the system, and possibility of it happening.
The Criminal aspect; is the fact that Boeing put MCAS on just One AOA, without any redundancy or fault monitoring/lockout. Then, they didn’t tell the pilots about MCAS, or the possibility of that scenario.
And, they still didn’t tell anyone, even after they knew what caused the first crash.
When the event occurred, the pilots thought they had a stall or Stab failure. It didn’t look like a runaway trim.
If you’re a pilot, you understand how deceptive and treacherous that failure is, occurring at 1000’ and just as the flaps retract.
On the wrong day, with the wrong crew, it could have happened here.
I prefer Boeing over Airbus, but to this day, I still cannot believe they designed it that way, initially.
For anyone interested, the problem was addressed, and the Max is a great airplane and safe.