Would You Get On One Of These?

[ToraToraTora]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-50151573
I think the first flight should include all the engineers etc that fixed it as well as the Board of Boeing.

[fender62]

the ceo who green lighted the originals...

[Bobbisox1]

No way :0/

[davebro]

I think the plane has stability problems which may not be adequately corrected by computers (or pilots) taking over control. I would not fly in one.

[teacake44]

Don't think I'd get me leg over.

[Zacs-Master]

So, you've turned up at the airport after booking a luxury trip somewhere and 'one of these' is a connecting flight and its the only one for 3 days......

Dilemma, huh?

[TonyV]

Think there will be lots of test flights without before any passengers board, plus the new systems being re accredited by relevant authorities.

[bednobs]

im not sure id know

[marval]

Not sure I would want to.

[Bazile]

Is the average punter turning up at the airport for their yearly hol to Torremolinos , going to know what the model of the plane is ( or can be bothered to check ) ?

[teacake44]

Well if your the only one that's got on, you'll know :0)

[Bazile]

^^^
Yeah , or if you see a few hundred people , being shepherd on at gunpoint :-)

[Ken4155]

If i was a regular jet-setter, i'd certainly take a flight on board. If they're fixed, then they're fixed. You'd certainly drive your car again if it had been in the garage to have failed brakes or wonky steering fixed, wouldn't you?

[teacake44]

Your not 40 thousand feet in the air with your car.

[Prudie]

I always check what plane type I'll be on but then I always pre-book seats which tell you. As a nervous flyer I'd be very reluctant to get on one.

[mallyh]

if they gave parachutes out at boarding gate .

[Bazile]

Yes ken
But somehow 35k feet over the atlantic , does seem a little bit different

[ummmm]

Yes...and I have a fear of flying.

[chrissa1]

If you read the full report, it seems it was a mixture of pilot error and a fault found in the cockpit of the Lionair flight that was not explained fully and therefore wasn’t fixed properly.

Lionair have lost their licence to fly.

[mushroom25]

//I think the plane has stability problems which may not be adequately corrected by computers (or pilots) taking over control. //

a "max" without MCAS would be perfectly flyable, it just handles differently and would therefore require a different training regime, and a separate airworthiness type certificate. Boeing didn't want that. the MCAS was intended to make the Max behave like a standard 737 and so save Boeing a shedload of cash on training, type certificates, etc etc.

[Ken4155]

Crashing into a brick wall @ 60 mph or falling 40 thousand feet in a plane before crashing. Both would very probably result in the same outcome - death. You've gotta go sometime:-/