I think Juan Brown does a very good job explaining what's probably been going on with the multiple crashes of the 737-MAX.
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Boeing 737-8 Malfunction
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Watched the whole thing. Wow.
Reading about the last five minutes of the flight is very scary in an inevitable sort of way.
So, the crew correctly switched off the malfunctioning MCATS system about halfway through the six minute flight, but then switched it back on about thirty seconds before the crash?
Which forced the nose down and the plane to dive. At least that is my understanding of what happened.
My father was a long time military and private jet pilot and he told me a story about a famous test pilot, I think it was Scott Crossley, who came to speak at his pilot training graduation. My father and a couple of other cadet colonels charged with escorting him ended up having an adult beverage with him “off the clock” in his BOQ room later that evening. The one thing Mr. Crossley shared with my father that stuck with my dad throughout his flying career was even during an extraordinary event “keep flying the airplane”. I am not so sure with all the sophisticated “safety features” on modern aircraft a pilot can “keep flying the aircraft”.
My father was a long time military and private jet pilot and he told me a story about a famous test pilot, I think it was Scott Crossley, who came to speak at his pilot training graduation. My father and a couple of other cadet colonels charged with escorting him ended up having an adult beverage with him “off the clock” in his BOQ room later that evening. The one thing Mr. Crossley shared with my father that stuck with my dad throughout his flying career was even during an extraordinary event “keep flying the airplane”. I am not so sure with all the sophisticated “safety features” on modern aircraft a pilot can “keep flying the aircraft”.
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Continuing investigation suggests the flight crew made a serious. and fatal, error.
So, the crew switched the faulty AI trim system back on.
I doubt that any of us can really know the chaos that was going on in that cockpit, prior to the crash. While the crew probably made errors, I don't believe they are 100% at fault here. Boeing will certainly have to share the blame.
Last words on the black box recorder: "God is good."
I doubt that any of us can really know the chaos that was going on in that cockpit, prior to the crash. While the crew probably made errors, I don't believe they are 100% at fault here. Boeing will certainly have to share the blame.
Last words on the black box recorder: "God is good."
Yeah, a single point of failure on a flight control system is not a good thing.
I was referring to the wide open throttle. Going over 500 mph!!
Yeah. not a good thing at all. I have to wonder if they posit "bad scenarios", worst case stuff and test the software in a simulator.
They're fixing it.
That sorta looks like Russian pilot error. [whew]
Some more crash updates from Juan. He makes a short reference to two float planes colliding in Alaska. We (sweating), wife and I, took one of those planes (the larger one) on that tour around Ketchikan last year.
Just setting the current media misinformation straight. Juan knows his s***.