Shutting off power to the stab trim system is not complex, and it's why the switches are right there on the console. The wheel and the sound it makes are right there and make it obvious when the stab trim system is running.
It's not in this NYT article, but from this one (https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/15/business/boeing-lion-air-cras...) apparently Boeing's stock has slid 8% likely because investors worry that it will have a huge liability associated with this.
Blows my mind that Boeing decided not to include this new system in the “updated” manual.
These articles make it sound like settled fact that this crash was caused by the anti-stall system. Is that really the expert concensus?
Slightly off-topic:
This is an ATC recording where pilots lost control over the aircraft. Figuring out what to do when the aircraft goes to random directions, they ask for the direction of the ocean to ditch in. Because of low visibility they have no idea where they are going.
The description suggests that during maintenance, some steering control was attached in the wrong way.
In this case, the pilots have like an hour to figure out how to control the aircraft.
Reminds me of the Air France Flight 447 crash, where a unexpected manual mode leads to confusion and cognitive overload with no time to recover.
Am I missing the interactive part of this article? Seems like a bunch of static images. Would be cool if it let you perform the operations in some way.
Last week I saw the Pilot putting the plane in Autopilot instead of handing over to copilot/trainee pilot when he went to loo.
dont fly third world airlines. western pilots win wars and dominate the skies.
Is it too cynical to wonder if the NTSB had been more involved with the investigation, that we’d be hearing pilot suicide explanations to protect Boeing?
Great article, unfortunate choice of title and opening image.
A lot of people are going to skip reading it, and assume this is an article blaming the pilots for this accident, rather than pointing out that neither the airline nor pilots were informed about Boeing's new systems and so couldn't have been trained to counteract it.
Boeing's new system wasn't even in the updated manual. And therefore it wasn't in their QRH, which is likely what they were using while attempting to resolve the issue.
> With only fragmentary data available, Mr. Hansman said he suspects that a runaway of the M.C.A.S. system played a central role in the crash. “The system basically overrode the pilot in that situation,” Mr. Hansman said.
Every thread so far about this topic however have managed to find a way to blame Lion Air, or simply point out how much they suck while glossing over the actual facts.