Pilots criticize Boeing for mistakes on its grounded jet
Source: Associated Press
By DAVID KOENIG and TOM KRISHER 15 minutes ago
Airline union leaders and a famed former pilot said Wednesday that Boeing made mistakes while developing the 737 Max, and the biggest was not telling anybody about new flight-control software so pilots could train for it.
Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger, who landed a crippled airliner safely on the Hudson River in 2009, said he doubted that any U.S. pilots practiced handling a specific malfunction until it happened on two Max jets that crashed, killing 346 people. Max pilots should train for such emergencies in simulators — not just on computers, as Boeing proposes, he said.
“We should all want pilots to experience these challenging situations for the first time in a simulator, not in flight, with passengers and crew on board,” Sullenberger said, adding that “reading about it on an iPad is not even close to sufficient.”
Sullenberger’s comments to the House aviation subcommittee came during the third congressional hearing on Boeing’s troubled plane, which has been grounded for three months.
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Let me also add, if the technician (Licensed Airframe and PowerPlant Mechanic which I was ) working the flight line, does not have the Maintenance Manual procedure to check for the failed Angle of Attack sensor for this aircraft or the Line Replacement Unit (LRU) or to simulate the drive on that elevator and to get that stick shaker to activate, and if there had been a write-up to that fault to perform that check.....................and it is just not there in the manual............................this just pisses me off..........................
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What Boeing pulled is total bullcrap - they need to be sued to oblivion.
