Blog: Aviation Law

According to CNN, air crash investigators continue to dig into whoever designed or approved the Angle of Attack (AOA) sensors in the fatal flights of both the Lion Air and Ethiopian Boeing Max 8 crashes. The sensor that killed the Lion Air flight had allegedly been “repaired” by “Xtra Aerospace” before it was returned to Lion Air for […]

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 […]

New reports say FAA states that it may be weeks before Boeing finishes its proposed software update.  FAA representatives state that “Time is needed for additional work by Boeing on its 737 MAX Flight Control Systems to ensure that Boeing has identified and appropriately addressed all pertinent issues” relating to the Lyon Air and Ethiopian airline crashes […]

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 […]

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 […]