Boeing will make standard on its troubled new airliner a safety feature that might have helped the crew of a jet that crashed shortly after takeoff last year in Indonesia, killing everyone on board.
The sensors measure whether the plane is pointed up, down or level in relation to the direction of onrushing air. Software on the Max can push the plane’s nose down if data from one of the sensors indicates the plane is tilted up so sharply that it could stall and fall from the sky. “Anyone who suggests that we should just have one of those two items — the alert and not the AOA gauges — is not embracing giving pilots all the information they should have,” he said.
The average list price for a 737 Max 8 is $121.6 million, according the company’s website, although airlines routinely receive deep discounts. Boeing charges extra for additional features but won’t discuss those numbers, calling it valuable proprietary information. The New York Times reported that the pilots of the Ethiopian plane never trained in a simulator for the plane. Gebremariam said that the 737 Max simulator is not designed to imitate problems in the new jet’s flight-control software. He declined to say whether the pilots had trained on the simulator.
Should they not correct the imbalance that prompted the need for the MCAS system to make this variant stable in the first place?
Boeing had “an option” to keep the plane from crashing for an “additional cost”. But now it will be included when you buy one of their planes.
A sticker that says 'flip this switch if you gonna crash '?
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