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Boeing 737: Would you book a flight on it?

trader4@optonline.net: May 06 03:01PM -0700 > https://news.google.com/search?q=boeing%20737&hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US%3Aen   After it's fixed yes. I'm not so concerned about the specific plane, but my faith in Boeing has been shattered. If they could design and ship that obviously bad MCAS design, what else have they designed in that's bad? And the pilots have so far escaped any scrutiny. The reality is they bear a portion of the blame. You didn't have to know anything about MCAS. The problem exhibited as runaway trim, where the electric trim runs amok, for whatever reason. Could be a stuck button, could be a short, in this case it was MCAS doing it. But the procedure is the same. You turn off the electric via two switches and trim manually. The switches are right next to the pilots in the center console, right next to the trim wheels. The trim wheels are like 6" in diameter and are spinning back and forth, first as MCAS pushed trim down, then up as the pilots used their trim buttons to correct. So, it's wildly oscillating to extreme nose down, then nose up, and? They should know the plane can't fly like that, but it will fly all day long with trim near zero. So, turn off the electric motor and set it by hand.   Out of 7 pilots, 4 for sure couldn't handle it. One for sure could, that was the extra pilot on the Lion Air flight the day before who just happened to be in the jump seat. If not for him, that might have been the fatal flight. And in Ethiopia, it was the young pilot with only 200 hours that identified it and did follow the correct procedure. But it appears the plane was trimmed so hard and going so fast that he was unable to move the trim wheel by hand and seconds later, it was over. Personally, I'm nore worried about the pilots than the 737 Max. I hope this problem is limited to foreign pilots, but good chance it's not.

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