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    Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), who leads a Senate subcommittee overseeing aviation, said in a statement Tuesday that U.S. authorities should ground the planes.
    "Further investigation may reveal that mechanical issues were not the cause, but until that time, our first priority must be the safety of the flying public," Cruz said.

    https://www.dallasnews.com/business/...ed-safety-flaw

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    if he actually had a brain I would have thought he was trying to depress the USD

    Donald Trump has launched an extraordinary attack on planes “too complicated” to fly after a Boeing 737 crashed in Ethiopia on Sunday.

    “Airplanes are becoming far too complex to fly. Pilots are no longer needed, but rather computer scientists from MIT,” Mr Trump tweeted. ”I see it all the time in many products. Always seeking to go one unnecessary step further, when often old and simpler is far better.”

    “Split second decisions are needed, and the complexity creates danger. All of this for great cost yet very little gain. I don’t know about you, but I don’t want Albert Einstein to be my pilot. I want great flying professionals that are allowed to easily and quickly take control of a plane!”
    https://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...-a8819396.html

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    Quote Originally Posted by harrybarracuda View Post
    In the wake of crashes like last weekend’s there are always calls for improved training and awareness, and that undoubtedly helps. But it can only go so far. The human brain is fundamentally ill-equipped to work through unfamiliar problems when under high stress. Five years after AF 447, every Airbus pilot should have been hyper aware of how the pilots erred in that case, yet in 2014 the pilots of Air Asia 8501 did almost exactly the same thing, with the same result.
    this is the bit that worries me most - how the fcuk do you get to control the pointy end without knowing what an aeroplane feels like as it approaches stall

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    Is a Boeing 737-800 the same as a 737-800 Max? Bit confused

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mandaloopy View Post
    Is a Boeing 737-800 the same as a 737-800 Max?
    No it isn't (and google would have told you if you'd asked)

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    I guess you will be asking for this Harry during your next passage through LAX - and for an extra grand you could probably get the vapid wench to polish your knob


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    Quote Originally Posted by baldrick View Post
    I guess you will be asking for this Harry during your next passage through LAX
    Not until they lift this fucking embargo.

    I've already been downgraded from Platinum to Gold.

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    At first I was thinking "How can someone be so utterly fucking stupid?".

    Elaine Chao, the transportation secretary, said regulators “will not hesitate to take immediate and appropriate action” if a safety issue arises.
    Then I remembered that she actually married Turtlehead McConnell, and he probably has a ton of Boeing stock in his portfolio.

    https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/12/b...-grounded.html

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    Add Canada to the no fly/no fly over list

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    The US's Association of Professional Flight Attendants (APFA) has called on American Airlines to follow the lead of more than 40 countries around the world and ground Boeing 737 MAX 8 planes.

    Key points:

    • The APFA says its flight attendants "will not be forced to fly if they feel unsafe"
    • But the FAA still says it has not seen enough data "to draw any conclusions"
    • 40 countries have ceased operations of the Boeing 737 MAX 8 planes after the crash in Ethiopia
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    Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago ...


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    Quote Originally Posted by baldrick View Post
    if he actually had a brain I would have thought he was trying to depress the USD



    https://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...-a8819396.html
    Not unlike our choice in presidents. trump being the oldest president ever elected (though he does have a very good makeup person), and as his quote end everything else reflect, is by far the simplest.

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    I bet other airlines helped them make that decision.

    This fucking flying coffin is an accident waiting to happen, and for sure Boeing would try and blame the pilots.

    Ethiopian Airlines has decided to send the black box from its crashed airplane to Europe for analysis, rather than to the United States where the Boeing 737 Max 8 was manufactured.

    The decision, in defiance of U.S. requests, is the latest sign of the world’s growing distrust of the United States on aviation safety issues. While U.S. regulators and Boeing have continued to insist that the Max 8 is safe, most other countries have ordered the grounding of the aircraft, leaving the United States increasingly isolated on the safety issue.

    https://beta.theglobeandmail.com/wor...-737-max-8-to/

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    Turtlehead will be pissed off.

    Baldy orange cunto has just grounded the Max 8 AND Max 9.

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ely-crash.html

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    ^ nice of him to let those in the air land...

    This makes Boeing and the FAA look a teeny weeny bit stupid.

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    Boeing claim they recommended it. Doing a baldy orange cunto with a barefaced lie.

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    Indonesia’s Lion Air plans to drop a $22 billion order for Boeing Co 737 Max jetliners and switch to aircraft from rivals Airbus SE as a rift between the companies widens following this week’s crash in Ethiopia, a person with knowledge of the proposal said.

    Lion Air was already looking at scrapping the Boeing deal after one of its own Max planes came down on October 29, killing 189 people, and the African tragedy has made co-founder Rusdi Kirana more determined to cancel the contract, according to the person.

    https://gulfnews.com/business/aviati...tch-1.62612433


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    Hairy's in a schadenfreude frenzy, completely ignoring the fact these investigations havn't really yet begun, and forgetting the Airbus planes went through similar teething pain.

    The pain of the A380 debacle still hasn't subsided. Hairy's fapping with glee. A shallow, stupid Brittle toad to the core.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Texpat View Post
    Hairy's in a schadenfreude frenzy, completely ignoring the fact these investigations havn't really yet begun, and forgetting the Airbus planes went through similar teething pain.

    The pain of the A380 debacle still hasn't subsided. Hairy's fapping with glee. A shallow, stupid Brittle toad to the core.
    Yeah, chai yen yen, Hairy.
    Your Schadenboner is rather embarrassing...

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    It's been announced that Kayak have added a filter to allow a customer to select/deselect aircraft types during their searches.

    An example of how some "choices"in ones life can be made available immediately as opposed to many others that are "decided" by unresponsive politicians.

    Way to go.

    Travel agents add aircraft search filter to address tourists’ safety fears of flying Boeing 737 MAX

    "Kayak, a fare aggregator and travel metasearch engine operated by Booking Holdings, has become the first travel service to announce plans to modify search filters to let their customers to block unpreferable models of aircraft in their queries. The step was reportedly taken amid growing concerns shared by travelers via social media.

    “We’ve recently received feedback to make Kayak’s filters more granular in order to exclude particular aircraft models from search queries,” a spokeswoman for the website told Reuters."

    https://www.rt.com/business/453726-t...search-boeing/


    Boeing's share price tumbling, a direct response to it's mishandling of the events.
    A tray full of GOLD is not worth a moment in time.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Texpat View Post
    a schadenfreude frenzy, completely ignoring the fact these investigations havn't really yet begun,
    Losing people you love due to crap design, penny pinching, failure to train the pilots on new aircraft type, tends to make people angry.

    All was to done, a fact high lighted by Boeing in their MAX sales literature that, "No additional type change training would be necessary" and as such quicker to utilise the new models, to gain orders by the manufacturer.

    As many of the pilots are,allegedly, scheduled to fly similar planes on different flights daily one should be able to realise how dangerous the situations can be for the passengers and flight crews.

    Some are content to allow others to act in, their name, in so many horrific ways, as you illustrate.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Texpat View Post
    Airbus planes went through similar teething pain

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    Quote Originally Posted by Texpat View Post
    The pain of the A380 debacle
    the pain of the texpat debacle lives on

    so what was the A380 debacle ?

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    Black Boxes of Ethiopian Boeing 737 MAX to Be Analysed in France


    "The French aviation safety watchdog Bureau d'Enquêtes et d'Analyses pour la Sécurité de l'Aviation Civile (BEA) will analyse the black boxes of the Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 MAX 8 aircraft which crashed on Sunday near Addis Ababa, the agency said Wednesday.

    "Ethiopian authorities have requested @BEA_Aero assistance for the analysis of FDR [flight data recorder] & CVR [cockpit voice recorder] / Any communication on the investigation progress is the responsibility of those authorities," BEA wrote on Twitter on Wednesday.

    Ethiopian Airlines previously refused to send the black boxes to the United States, where the Boeing 737 Max 8 was manufactured, The Globe and Mail reported Wednesday. US aviation authorities were among the latest to issue an emergency order to ground all Boeing 737 Max 8 and 737 Max 9 series aircraft following the deadly crash of an Ethiopian Airlines flight."

    Another

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    How many nuclear tipped missile carrying subs, does Ethiopia have or need, to show the shithouse what they think of it?
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    One wonders what airlines and passengers see the benefit of this person getting involved:

    https://www.reuters.tv/v/P0hi/2019/0...737-max-planes

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    Quote Originally Posted by Texpat View Post
    Hairy's in a schadenfreude frenzy, completely ignoring the fact these investigations havn't really yet begun
    They have, that's why these deathtraps are parked gathering dust.


    , and forgetting the Airbus planes went through similar teething pain.
    They didn't.

    Not bad, 0/2 texprat, your usual score, points there for consistency.


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    Boeing 737 Max: Battle Brews over Who Should Analyze Black Boxes from Ethiopian Air Crash

    Ethiopia’s aviation authority is unable to read the black box recorders from the Boeing 737 Max plane that crashed Sunday, but a row is brewing over just where the flight recorders will be sent for analysis.

    http://fortune.com/2019/03/13/ethiopian-air-crash-black-boxes/

    Worried about US corruption? That's pretty heavy, man...

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