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Category: Aviation Law

Ethiopian Officials Determined that its Boeing Max 8 Crash Was an Aircraft Problem, Not a Pilot Problem

On March 10, Ethiopian Airlines flight 302 departed Addis Ababa Bole International Airport bound for Nairobi, Kenya.  Just after takeoff the pilot radioed a distress call and was given an immediate clearance to return and land.  Six minutes later 149 passengers and eight crew members were dead.   According to CNN the Ethiopian Airlines 737 Max […]

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A Continued Look into the Boeing 737 Max 8 Investigations

According to Boeing its Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System (MCAS) was designed and certified for the 737 MAX to enhance the pitch stability of the airplane, so that it feels and flies like other 737s.  The question now however is, did it have the potential to command undesired, repeated pitch excursions which caused the nose of the 737 MAX to […]

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Update: Boeing 737 Max 8 – “Operator Error Theory” Collapsed …

Boeing’s ‘operator error theory’ obviously collapsed when there were two, separate airline crashes.  After two, giant and fatal air crashes, it became horribly obvious the cause of the crashes were not an isolated ‘one-off’.  It’s also obvious that Boeing’s after-market  manufacturing focus was limited to a “computer chip message”.  But what Boeing missed and absolutely should have recognized […]

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