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American Airlines, Southwest Flight Attendants Ask Carriers to Ground Boeing 737 MAX Planes After Crash
American Airlines and Southwest Airlines flight attendants and ground crews urged the companies to take their Boeing 737 Max airplanes out of service after other carriers around the world suspended the jets following a fatal crash in Ethiopia over the weekend, the workers' unions said Tuesday (www.cnbc.com) עוד...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
Someone at Boeing is losing sleep
At the moment no one knows the cause of the 737 MAX crashes, and I would hesitate to take one until the investigations pinpoint the problem.
What concerns me more is the airlines putting 200 hour pilots in the cockpit of large passenger jets.
What concerns me more is the airlines putting 200 hour pilots in the cockpit of large passenger jets.
That there hasn't been a crash with a US flagged carrier doesn't prove the planes are safe, and that all the crashes so far have been with foreign flagged carriers doesn't prove it's not safe. That the plane is getting more complex seems true, so this could all come down to pilot training, and experience. A recent unrelated crash happened because the pilots 'forgot how a plane flies'. At this point, and until the cause of the Ethiopian crash is determined, not flying the planes seems histrionic. Requiring pilots to have more training rather than less is the salient point here. Under-trained and inexperienced pilots is the issue. The industry in this country doesn't want to put much training into their pilots, because they see training as being expensive compared to the chances of a crash. The same is true for trucking companies. Why those industries continuously want to walk the line between safe and unsafe is disgusting and crazy. *shrug* So much of regulation is reactive rather than proactive, and the flying and driving population pay the price.
Annnnnd grounded in the US.
Confirmed, Southwest has just grounded all 34 of its Max 8 aircraft.
Yuppp... Just posted a squawk about it