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US aviation officials think a bird strike was factor in 737 Max crash
U.S. aviation officials believe a bird strike may have led to the deadly crash of an Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 Max in March, according to a person familiar with the matter. Boeing shares were up 1.3% in morning trading. The fast-selling Boeing 737 Max airplanes have been grounded since shortly after that accident, which came less than five months after a similar crash in Indonesia. Together, the two crashes killed 346 people. Crash investigators have indicated that bad sensor data triggered… (www.cnbc.com) Plus d'info...
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Are US aviation officials lending a hand to save Boeing ? If Boeing had been wrong in continuing with an aircraft that had fatal flaws, they have to face the music, since lives were lost twice in a short time. You can't be an aviation player if your brand-new planes keep crashing.
Yes, I am inclined to follow the general direction of responses here too - that this is a little too convenient and reduces Boeings culpability - although not entirely of course.
A lot of very experienced people on here are saying that they feel this is not the whole story...
A lot of very experienced people on here are saying that they feel this is not the whole story...
Bird struck the only active AoA sensor? maybe, but still sounds like a fake as no official source given. Still shouldn't have downed a liner if redundancies were active and proper alerts were available.
I believe that the management of both Boeing and the FAA are to blame for the lose of 346 lives in both of these crashes. Boeing for NOT keeping all the safety equipement in the aircraft as standard equipement, plus not training all pilots on the operations of MCAS plus not updating the flight manuals on all the aircraft. The FAA is to carry much of the blame as well for allowing Boeing to self certify their aircraft. This whole thing has been because Boeing wanted to save money at the cost of peoples safety and lives and the FAA allowed it to happen. Both the management of Boeing and the FAA should be charged and jailed. As for bird stikes, they have been an everyday thing in flying but it is not a bird strike that brought down these two plane it is the greed of both Boeing and the FAA. The FAA has lost all credibility no issue safety certification on any Boeing aircraft and a proper international safety certification organisation should be set up before Any of Boeings aircraft be allowed back into the air. This is total negligence by both Boeing and the FAA.
The FAA has lost all credibility on issuing safety certification on any aircraft and it should be replaced with a proper international safety certification organisation before any of Boeing's aircraft are allowed back into the sky
"U.S. aviation officials think a bird strike is the likely culprit in what led to erroneous sensor data fed to the anti-stall system in the Ethiopian crash, the person said. Ethiopian Airlines has said, however, that a preliminary crash investigation report showed “no evidence of any foreign object damage” such as a bird strike, to the sensor."
Sounds ever more like a desperate search to come up with an "it wasn't our fault" cause for the crash, even if the hardware shows it is probably not the case.