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Originally Posted by Chris
Netflix’s damning documentary on the company (Downfall: The case against Boeing) is well worth watching.
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Definitely, I’ve watched it and a couple of others too.
It wasn’t so much the software issue, which was an attitude correcting program. The plane flew fine, if you knew how to fly it. As always it was about the money.
History…..Because the 737 airframe is essentially the same one for 55 years, but engines have changed, and for modern engines to fit the 55 year old frame they have to be slung way forward, therefore making the plane slightly unstable.
Boeing fixed this with software, as Chris says, but they filed the change as BAU, therefore not requiring retraining of pilots, because that is very expensive. So pilots did not not know that this software would make corrections to the plane’s attitude independently of the pilots inputs.
So, when you took off, you had the plane pulling up, so the pilot pushed down, and vice versa, which led to two crashes.
It was simply cost cutting over safety. Unforgivable, especially in aviation.