Flight was enroute from ADD to NBO with 157 onboard...
https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/10/africa/ethiopia-airline-crash-nairobi-intl/index.html
https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/10/africa/ethiopia-airline-crash-nairobi-intl/index.html
Swampy I will private message you.That's right Jim, not good at all. Lion Air I think was or had a faulty air speed indicator.
Fix needs to be found quickly. There are a lot of airlines getting these Max 8's. Will they get grounded until investigated???
The Lion Air was a faulty AOA putting imput to the automatic stall recovery system. That is why now all of SWA Max aircraft have the modification for AOA disagree on the primary flight display. We will have to wait on the latest investigation on this Ethiopian Airlines Max crash. They had 5 aircraft in their fleet.That's right Jim, not good at all. Lion Air I think was or had a faulty air speed indicator.
Fix needs to be found quickly. There are a lot of airlines getting these Max 8's. Will they get grounded until investigated???
I doubt if you can resolve the cause in a few days, but with the flight data recorders, you might get some good data.China grounds all 737 MAX 8s following Ethiopian crash. This may be over-reacting, but would certainly ease nervous passengers if grounding only lasted a few days.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/10/africa/china-boeing-ethiopian-air-crash-intl/index.html
WN has 34 Max 8s. AA has 24. Neither airline has any plans at this time to ground these a/c.
Airlines still flying the MAX 8: https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/11/africa/max-8-operations-roundup-intl/index.html
And Indonesia also grounded them. Wn is allowing pax who dont want to fly it to change . AA wont w o charging feesOnce the black boxes are tapped and any info leads them to ground them or allow them to continue flying. Not sure if just the BB data will lead to anything though.
I admire China and Ethiopian Airlines for being proactive now. Maybe a little premature, but, hey, better to be safe than sorry...
With AA management's talent for shooting themselves in the foot, I'm sure they will not change the "change rules" until they have wrung as much bad publicity out of the situation as is possible.Just heard that third one myself.
AA needs to change the rules for a request to change due to current events. Sad to see they are not.