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Old 04-05-2019, 09:03 PM
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Originally Posted by dera View Post
So which accidents that have happened lately do you find excuses for?
Let's do past 20 years and skip 9/11. Which ones were handled correctly?
You seem to have a problem with someone calling a spade a spade.
I'm not excusing any accidents in particular. Many here, including you, seem to want to give these guys a pass and put all the blame on Boeing. I'm just not feeling as forgiving and "it could happen to anyone" as some of the bleeding hearts here seem to be. Based on the clear evidence provided by the FDR, it's my opinion (and I'm not the only one) that these two pilots screwed up badly. The media firestorm and the myriad of "experts" spouting BS about MCAS have turned this into a sympathy party for pilots who should have been able to handle a relatively basic malfunction.
Boeing did a terrible job with this system and they should share the blame for these accidents because a single point, single input failure is an amazingly stupid design. But all that did was drastically raise the probability of a runaway stabilizer event happening on these aircraft. That malfunction is not an unrecoverable event and in the hands of a competent crew should have ended in a safe landing. If you actually think that this outcome could happen to you under the same circumstances, then you really should choose another line of work.
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