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0 pointscjbprime7y ago0 comments

It sounds like you're going for a "innocent until proven guilty" approach to the Max's airworthiness, if I'm understanding your comment correctly. That seems opposite to the culture of air safety, where planes are certified airworthy because the data prove them to be so.

I don't think the data prove airworthiness of the Max anymore.

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woofcat7y ago

However no data that originally certified it as airworthy has changed. All we have is two incidents, one of which we have no information about. For all we know it was a hijacking, or a drunk pilot.

Absurd ideas, however in my mind without any evidence it is equally likely. They have the CVR and I'm sure very shortly we'll know for sure.

If it turns out to be MCAS then we can ground the fleet, the extra day of delay doesn't seem like the highest risk factor.

cjbprimeOP7y ago

That's not really true. MCAS can not be argued to meet https://www.risingup.com/fars/info/part25-672-FAR.shtml, so it's not airworthy. The FAA's allowed them to continue flying anyway while they disclose the problem and workarounds, and deploy a fix which is now very delayed. That's a much more questionable decision now that another flight with similar characteristics has crashed.

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