FAA: Boeing 737 Max upgrades expected within weeks – but 'time is needed' for a 'rigorous' review

[Denizen]

FAA and Boeing doublespeak to cover up their criminal negligence and culpable homicide causing the death of 300+ people.

FAA is ok with dead foreigners.

The Boeing 737 Max is an aerodynamic dodo and wouldn't fly without constant uninterrupted pilot control if the MCAS software was shut off.

Boeing could probably put huge aircraft engines on a dumpster and design software to fly the dumpster and the FAA would probably licence the dumpster as an aircraft. That doesn't make it right.

FAA: Boeing 737 Max upgrades expected within weeks – but 'time is needed' for a 'rigorous' review

FAA: Boeing 737 Max upgrades expected within weeks – but 'time is needed' for a 'rigorous' review

Susan Miller, USA TODAY Published 5:49 p.m. ET April 1, 2019 | Updated 6:02 p.m. ET April 1, 2019

An aviation analyst says the FAA was too slow to ground Boeing 737 Max aircraft in the U.S. following the second of two fatal crashes. But Scott Hamilton says the impact of the grounding will be minimal for airline passengers. (March 14) AP

The FAA expects to receive the final package for Boeing's software improvements on the 737 Max aircraft in "coming weeks," the agency said Monday – but will not approve the fixes for installation until a "rigorous" review.

The statement comes as the certification process for Boeing's Max jetliners is under intense scrutiny after two accidents that left 346 people dead.
Boeing last week proposed software upgrades to the Max aircraft that focused on a flight-control system known as MCAS that is designed to keep the plane's nose from pitching up, which can result in a deadly stall. ...

 

[ABikerSailor]

You know, there IS such a thing as "over engineering", and I think that the people at Boeing have done it.

The latest plane that crashed and had all the other ones grounded almost crashed the day before. The only reason it didn't? Because they had a pilot hitching a ride with them who had been through the same thing just a day or two before, and he knew what to do.

And, to tell you the truth, having so much stuff depend on just one pitot tube (the air sensor that caused the plane to crash) is kinda stupid. Most military aircraft have backup systems that check against each other. Why in the hell don't civilian aircraft have at least the same amount of regulation as military cargo carriers?