Originally Posted by
symbian simian
Agree about congress.
However, EICAS should have been on the NG never mind the max. The moving goalposts was Boeing not putting it in the 737 in the NG 20 years ago when every single other similar sized airplane (redesign) had that. Accusing the FAA of dragging their feet is laughable after B building the same cockpit for 42 years.
Market forces should dictate products on the market. Exactly how many 737s have crashed in the last 30 years due to not having EICAS? In the last 20? Last 10? What's the compelling reason to kill off a profitable product line for an American company? I agree that Boeing had a lot to answer for and to correct with the MAX certification, but requiring a new feature to be added in the absence of a compelling safety vulnerability is a violent shift away from our free market economic practices that could have economic costs in in the Billions. You just can't do that without a compelling reason, unless you're a greedy congresscritter stuffing your pockets full because we're all too collectively stupid to demand term limits.