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The tracking data of Lion Air Flight 610 from Flightradar24 The vertical airspeeds of the Boeing 737 MAX 8s involved in the JT 610 and ET 302 crashes. On Lion Air Flight 610 and Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302, investigators determined that MCAS was triggered by falsely high AoA inputs, as if the plane had pitched up excessively.
MCAS was designed to counter this but some experts say it overcompensated and the latest changes give some authority back to the pilot. Boeing fix will prevent repeated activation of anti-stall ...
In a private meeting on November 27, 2018, American Airlines pilots pressed Boeing managers to develop an urgent fix for MCAS and suggested that the FAA require a safety review which in turn could have grounded the airplanes. [96] [97] A recording of the meeting revealed pilots' anger that they were not informed about MCAS. One pilot was heard ...
Boeing initially hesitated to identify MCAS as a contributor to the crash, but some details of the system’s performance emerged within days of the incident. By early November, ...
Challenge Boeing to deliver a true-zero-emissions airplane in the time it took the U.S. to land a man on the moon (incidentally, this was a moonshot in which Boeing played a significant part). The ...
Pilot movement of the control column on the MAX did not disable MCAS, unlike an earlier implementation of MCAS on the U.S. Air Force Boeing 767 Tanker. During certification of the MAX , Boeing requested and received permission from the FAA to remove a description of MCAS from the aircraft manual, leaving pilots unaware of the system when the ...
A Boeing Co software fix for the grounded 737 MAX will prevent repeated operation of an anti-stall system at the centre of safety concerns and deactivate it altogether if two sensors disagree too ...
Representatives of passengers on Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 may be able to argue that Boeing knew, or should have known or contemplated, the risk of a crash from knowledge of MCAS and previous issues, including the earlier Lion Air crash, potentially opening a route to punitive damages. [26]