Thread regarding Boeing Co. layoffs

Poorly designed plane requiring software to fly it....same plane, new software...no thanks.

Here in our flight dynamics lab we’ve created a new GUI as an aid to the
Audio Warnings.
Terrain! Terrain! Pull, Up, Pull, Up, Terrain! Terrain! Pull, Up, Over-Speed
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@1bmk

I agree with Pull Up! Pull Up!

@3hus
“Over The Wall Lads”
No one Live's forever!!!!

That memo to the employees was NOT ASKING; it was ORDERING employees to hop on that plane! :-)

The could offer free Valiums and all the alcohol you can drink on board. Still not flying on a Max. I ain’t going out like that.

This airline is flying 5 employee-only 737 MAX flights to nowhere
https://thepointsguy.co.uk/news/american-737-max-employee-only-flight/

American Airlines plans to operate five employee-only flights on its
Boeing 737 MAX aircraft in preparation for the aircraft’s return to service.

In order to restore employee confidence in the beleaguered aircraft,
American said it will operate the employee-only flights.

American sent out the following memo to employees:

“We know that restoring our customers’ confidence in the 737 MAX starts
with ensuring our own team members are comfortable. That’s why, leading
up to the aircraft’s return to scheduled service Dec. 29, we’ll operate five
737 MAX flights, exclusively for team members.”

The flights will take course over a period of five days between 3 December
and 17 December. More specifically, the flights will take off from three
AA hubs and spend about one hour in the air before returning to the
same airport.

Before the 737 MAX is allowed to return to service, however, the aircraft
must undergo certain modifications and the pilots have to undergo
new training. The fixes largely focus on the software of the
flight control systems, which were the causes of the two downed jets —
a Lion Air 737 MAX 9 in late 2018 and an Ethiopian Airlines 737 MAX 8
in March 2019. Combined, the two crashes took 346 lives.

https://www.colombotelegraph.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Crash-Animation-of-Ethiopian-Airlines-flight-ET302-Boeing-737-Max-plane.jpg

https://static01.nyt.com/images/2019/03/10/world/10Ethiopia5-promo/10Ethiopia5-promo-videoSixteenByNineJumbo1600-v11.jpg

https://cdn.abcotvs.com/dip/images/5185830_031219-cc-ap-ethiopia-crash-scene- jpg

To : @1bmk+188gcU8Z
Very well stated, I agree 100%.

There was 2 fatal crashes but who knows how many near miss situations occurred that could have resulted in a crash.

Not fake news. ABC's 20/20 program earlier tonight provided yet another damning public report on the 737 MaxFailure. It's been evolving into a classic MBA case study in dysfunctional management, inept technical/product design practices, and an organizational culture that currently prioritizes corporate profit and market share over product quality/safety/reliability/reputation. For example:

1. Adding larger engines to an existing, older aircraft (a lazy, bolt-on approach to cut new product development costs).
2. Secretly using a software-based solution (MCAS) to compensate for the plane's structural changes and difference in flight characteristics compared to the original 737 (a flawed system that takes complete and irreversible control over the aircraft, much to the surprise of pilots flying them).
3. Utilizing only 1 external angle-of-attack sensor to provide input to MCAS (an obvious, but critical single point of failure for the entire aircraft–a bad/faulty input creating a fatal scenario).
4. Discouraging and eliminating the need for any formal pilot training on the 737 MaxFailure and only providing tutorials on an iPad (to cut costs for the airlines buying these planes).
5. Covering up the severity of the problem by omitting MCAS from external documentation, providing pilot instructions to just shut off the power to the rear stabilizers to override MCAS, and convincing Congress and the FAA that the 737 MaxFailure is safe to fly (unfortunately, 2 planes and 346 lives have been lost so far).

Boeing has made an absolutely huge product mistake and is still unwilling to admit it. Wonder what other safety oversights exist and what else might fail. Maybe SpaceX should consider building next-generation aircraft. Would you feel confident to board a 737 MaxFailure when they supposedly resume flying next month? If so, good luck!

@ege+188gcU8Z

You're right. But all it will take is one more crash for boeing to be too big to bail