A new report from the Joint Authorities Technical Review (JATR) panel, convened by the FAA in April following two fatal crashes in less than five months involving the Boeing 737 MAX 8, said the plane’s new flight control system, called the Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System (MCAS) was not evaluated in concert with other systems. MCAS has been implicated… [Read More]
You’re Not Welcome In My Airspace!
Will Boeing ever win back its foremost place in business? Boeing, once the world’s preeminent airline maker has been found seriously wanting, resulting in trust repercussions, the most recent of which is Germany’s refusal to let Norwegian into its airspace to transport one of its 737 Max planes. As a result, Norwegian, which was attempting… [Read More]
Flying is Safer Than Driving? Did Boeing say that?
Every day thousands of flights take off from airports worldwide. We are routinely told flying is less hazardous than driving and so we put our lives in the hands of airlines who supposedly have our best interests at heart. That premise now needs to be deeply scrutinized. If we can’t trust our major airline carriers,… [Read More]