Op-Ed: The Boeing 737 MAX : a cocktail of a devil in the system, uber-pilots and negotiable safety By Guy Leitch
Mary Schiavo, former Inspector General of the United States Department of Transportation, said in a CNN interview that the Boeing 737 has outlived its useful life but is being kept alive because “Boeing has more clout than the FAA” and that is why it still flies in the US.
What Boeing omitted to do was to tell the pilots about this new stab-trim system and to build in proper redundancy for its data sources. So the 737 MAX did not need to go through the same certification testing as a clean-sheet aircraft design, as they relied on the ‘grandfather rights’ from the original B737-100 certified in the 1965. This not only saved Boeing a huge amount of time and money in development but also reduces the training requirements for the operators.
Shortly after the Ethiopian crash, Donald Trump cast aspersions on the Ethiopian and Lion Air pilots, specifically their failure to cut-out the MCAS programme. Trump is notably close to Boeing, and his Acting Secretary of Defence, Pat Shanahan, worked for Boeing for 21 years. This close relationship between POTUS and Boeing has caused the Ethiopians to distrust the Americans.
Understandably, many passengers said that they would refuse to fly in a Boeing 737 MAX until the cause of the two crashes is identified and fixed. The problem passengers face was how to know if you had been booked on a MAX, and what to do if you had been. For those who asked, I attempted to explain the key visual difference between the two, and that is that the MAX has a sawtooth edge to the back of its engines.
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