There has barely been any reporting on the incidents. One was with United and the other with Qatar Airways, both extremely similar where the planes started rapidly descending immediately after take off, coming within less than a 1000 ft of the ocean and then suddenly shooting up again.

To me it reads like some systemic failure which caused the falls and some automatic crash detection system that kicks in when the plane nears the ocean surface and automatically climbs up.

Fucking scary shit.

  • Evilphd666 [he/him, comrade/them]
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    2 years ago

    But they paid fines and no executive went to jail. Problem solved right?

    By Ralph Nader March 21, 2019 Greedy Boeing’s Avoidable Design and Software Time Bombs

    In practice, one Boeing engineer would conduct a test of a particular system on the Max 8, while another Boeing engineer would act as the FAA’s representative, signing on behalf of the U.S. government that the technology complied with federal safety regulations…” “Hundreds of Boeing engineers would have played out this scenario thousands of times as the company sought to verify the performance of mechanical systems, hardware installation and massive amounts of computer code…”

    So, citizens, watch out for bloviating Congressional Committee members castigating Boeing executives at the witness table before the television cameras and then doing nothing once the television broadcasts fade away.