Originally Posted by
GPullR
You either didn't read the accounts of the 2 crashes or have no idea what you are talking about. One incident flew for 6 minutes while the captain retrimmed 33 times. Then gave the airplane to a 250hr pilot and never said he retrimmed once. The second one was left at takeoff power until it hit the ground more then 2 minutes later. Every us pilot on the 737 was trained on trim runaway. Turn 2 switches off if that big huge wheel that hits you in the knee all the time is moving uncommanded.
I think it’s slightly erroneous to blame the crew so heavily. Could they have done differently, maybe. But the idea is is that Boeing designed a plane with a single-point of failure on a catastrophically pivotal system and then marketed and sold it to countries that are well known to do ab-initio training and throw kids in a jet with 250 hours and wet certs. They should have known better. BUT, on top of that, they then went one step further and profited on the safety mechanism that should have been implemented in the first place, as redundancy in aircraft design is almost outright expected nowadays. Blame the crew, don’t blame the crew, Boeing seriously messed up. They have a duty when the sell airplanes to those airlines.
If it were just the max incidents, it’d be one thing. But it’s a little bit of a common straw man to pick apart the max accidents as a way to defend what is so very clearly wrong at Boeing.