Miloch <Miloch_member@newsguy.com> wrote in
news:qeee5202tj1@drn.newsguy.com:
> https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/19/politics/chesley-sullenberger-boeing-737
> -max-scenario/index.html
>
> landing in the Hudson River 10 years ago told a congressional panel
> Wednesday that he can "see how crews could have run out of time"
> during the recent Boeing 737 MAX crashes after he struggled to recover
> the plane in a simulator running recreations of the doomed flights.
>
> "I recently experienced all these warnings in a 737 MAX flight
> simulator during recreations of the accident flights. Even knowing
> what was going to happen, I could see how crews could have run out of
> time before they could have solved the problems. Prior to these
> accidents, I think it is unlikely that any US airline pilots were
> confronted with this scenario in simulator training," Chesley "Sully"
> Sullenberger told the House Transportation Committee during a hearing
> on the embattled plane model.
>
> Sullenberger, whose "Miracle on the Hudson" landing in 2009 saved the
> lives of all 155 people on board, told the panel that it's important
> pilots don't have "inadvertent traps."
>
> "We must make sure that everyone who occupies a pilot seat is fully
> armed with the information, knowledge, training, skill and judgment to
> be able to be the absolute master of the aircraft and all its
> component systems and of the situations simultaneously and
> continuously throughout the flight," he said.
>
> Pilots need physical, firsthand experience to be prepared for
> emergencies, Sullenberger said.
>
> "Reading about it on an iPad is not even close to sufficient," he
> said.
>
> The Boeing 737 MAX has come under intense criticism after two planes
> of that model recently crashed in Ethiopia and Indonesia, killing a
> total of 346 people.
>
> Following the crash of the Ethiopian plane in March, 737 MAX jets were
> grounded and the company has been working to come up with a fix to the
> automatic safety feature that has been the focus of crash
> investigations. A time frame for the 737 Max's return to service has
> not yet been announced.
It is been 6 months that Boeing has known about
this "software glich" and they STILL haven't been
able to correct it? Who wrote this program?
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