Thanks hopefully nothing mechanical, prayers for the families.
Almost sounds like that Air France Airbus crash in the Atlantic , pitot tube issues and stalled and crashed the Aircraft . If it is I see an AD coming out fairly quickly. I know the Max 8 has automatic pitot heat as soon as the engines start we modified all our 737s, even the NGs with that feature, in case the crews forget to turn the heat on.
I believe so, what year was that?
You can stall an Airplane and crash it, if they pull this max up and the slats are in auto extended, they have that for stall recovery.
I see the DFDR showed air speed problems , like four times. In cluding the day before the crash. Should prove interesting.
Scary part: Just heard on NBC this morning that the instrument which produced the incorrect reading that led to the crash was just replaced the night before. This was part of a bulletin issued by Boeing this morning. (It's really going to be a blow to Boeing if it is found that the Indonesian mechanics re-placed the defective instrument correctly. I'm afraid this is going to result in the grounding of all of 737 Max8 a/c in service.)
Things change quickly, you never know what can happen.
Actually, after I made that post, I read further into one of the links I listed and found that the FAA action does not require that the 737 MAX8 a/c be grounded. Seems the correction to the particular problem is already in the pilot's manual. A switch needs to be engaged, but it must be held in position in order for the autopilot to stop trying to dive the a/c. If I got this right, holding the switch in open position tells the autopilot to ignore certain info which normally would tell the autopilot that the a/c has stalled and the a/c must dive to restart. Now, if I got it wrong, remember I was a flight attendant. I was paid to be cute, not smart.
