DALLAS - Boeing Co’s chief executive said on Thursday that about two-thirds of the planemaker’s 737 MAX customers have joined simulator sessions with a software update designed to prevent disasters like two recent fatal crashes involving its best-selling jetliner.
Boeing, fighting its biggest crisis in years, has been developing an upgrade to software that is under scrutiny in the Ethiopian Airlines accident and a Lion Air 737 MAX crash that killed all 189 on board on Oct. 29. “We know every person who steps aboard one of our airplanes places their trust in us,” Muilenburg said at a leadership forum in Dallas.
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Something tells me it is more than a software fix. Engines moved to far forward? Out of equilibrium on ascend? Richard Quest CNN suggested this to a pro boeing guy and he quickly changed the subject.
Anyone with a smartphone knows better than to trust a software update.
The credibility gap is huge Boeing, with the MAX customers and the Flying public at large across the Globe, at this point it seems to everyone, you are putting profits ahead of safety concerns.
Seen it and said why wasn’t this in place in the first place?
I will never fly on one of those planes. AmericanAir SouthwestAir
...and immediately called Airbus.
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