FAA clears Boeing 737 Max to fly again

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After you. I insist.

Less than two years after all Boeing 737 Max planes were grounded following two deadly crashes, the Federal Aviation Administration Wednesday gave the company the green light to fly again.

“We will never forget the lives lost in the two tragic accidents that led to the decision to suspend operations,” David Calhoun, chief executive officer of The Boeing Company, said in a statement.

“These events and the lessons we have learned as a result have reshaped our company and further focused our attention on our core values of safety, quality and integrity.”

FAA Administrator Steve Dickson officially rescinded the grounding order Wednesday morning after determining that both crashes “involved a common cause” and beginning “proceedings to address the unsafe condition.”

A report from the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure blamed both the plane manufacturer and the FAA for “a horrific culmination of a series of faulty technical assumptions by Boeing’s engineers, a lack of transparency on the part of Boeing’s management, and grossly insufficient oversight by the FAA."

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It is easy to solve, actually. The software the had for their air-pressure-meters controlling the auto-pilot is shit. And now they "solved" it by putting in a third air-pressure-meter instead of fixing the fuselage or their sw.

They changed the fuselage only somewhat a little bit (to get approval because of model similarity earlier) and then they fucked up the auto-pilot by rushing their sw-engineers.

I teach this kind of problems in my courses.

As a physicists i also kindly advise anyone not to fly in this type of plane because from a fluid dynamics-viewpoint this plane and its fuselage is highly unstable in air exceeding speeds of 200km/h.

Maybe it's only me but i actually think that a plane always should be able to be controlled by its pilots.

This one is a classic regarding "business"-management spitting into things it has no idea of. At least in my courses it is.

I also advise anyone flying this type of plane to refuse to fly it because even when deploying the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ram_air_turbine the autopilot will still anticipate you. The sw they implemented is kinda made to do this.

In my community we had a lot of good laughs when looking at sw produced by Boeing lately.