Originally Posted by
Grumble
Eastwind not European... auto correct.
Like I said... your post was factually inaccurate especially when talking politics. No cause could ever be determined for the USair and United crashes. Training changes was grasping at straws. It wasn’t until the Eastwind crew could be interviewed was the NTSB able to determine an inherent flaw in the PCU that could lead to rudder reversal.
Completely different situation, and by the FAAs own admission after the Lion Air crash they new more would come. Trump and political correctness had zero to do with grounding of the Max. If anything politics kept it flying to long, or worse turned it loose on the public. There’s a clear distinction from gross neglect, and what happened back in the 90’s
I think his point is that even after the NTSB and FAA determined that the rudder PCU had caused two catastrophic mishaps (and perhaps others abroad) and nearly another, they didn’t ground the 737. They mandated training and new PCU’s for all 737’s, but the deadline was three and a half years from the conclusion of the investigation. (March 1999 to November 2002)
That would have been like telling Boeing to come up with updated training for the MAX and setting a deadline for new software/hardware three years from now. It’s a very similar situation and it has been handled very differently.