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Boeing 737 MAX 10 Launches With Little Fanfare

Ben Schlappig — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 23:19:28 +0000

Usually an aircraft manufacturer debuting a new plane type is big news, though that’s not the case for Boeing today.

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KFTX888 — Tue, 26 Nov 2019 04:40:56 +0000

@Jupiter -- "…and Boeing did not think it appropriate to alert all MAX operators about the MCAS malfunction incidences? Maybe their engineers overestimated their abilities?" -- I think that the entire Boeing internal blame goes toward the 737-MAX program management chain, since there were many instances where Engineering did alert and complain about how certain aspects of the MCAS system architecture and implementation were inadequately considerate of failure/recovery scenarios ... but program management over-ruled those complaints, and that ultimately resulted in the unfortunate crashes. Apparently this type of situation happens much too often -- when GE designed the nuclear reactors for Japan's Fukushima nuclear power plant, something like 5 design engineers actually quit in protest over how their management was disregarding safety concerns with the design that ended up failing and creating the nuclear crises at Fukushima after their huge earthquake and ensuing tsunami flooding!

Jupiter — Tue, 26 Nov 2019 03:40:39 +0000

...and Boeing did not think it appropriate to alert all MAX operators about the MCAS malfunction incidences? Maybe their engineers overestimated their abilities?

KFTX888 — Mon, 25 Nov 2019 23:41:53 +0000

@Pogonation -- "I find your comments interesting. However in order to give credibility to your posts I would like to know which university you went to (the best in the world one), and the names of the 8 high tech engineering companies you set up." -- Well ... you can Google what the top engineering school in the world has been for decades running (hint -- it's located in the eastern half of USA) ... as for your statement about my having "set up" 8 high tech engineering companies, please go back and read my post again, as to what I actually said ... unfortunately, I'm not at liberty to discuss most of those startups (some of which I did found), but just to give you an idea, one of those where I was a key player participated in the IBM-compatible PC arena ... I'm not really interested to self-doxx here, so this is all that I can reveal!

Pogonation — Mon, 25 Nov 2019 21:41:44 +0000

@BillC I have enjoyed reading through all your posts. I am personally in the party that won’t be happy flying the new MAX until they have been flying a decent number of frames for 1-2 years. I find your comments interesting. However in order to give credibility to your posts I would like to know which university you went to (the best in the world one), and the names of the 8 high tech engineering companies you set up.

KFTX888 — Sun, 24 Nov 2019 23:43:53 +0000

@Owen -- "So yall instead target their geopolitics of the not being part of the 1st-world being Southeast Asia and Africa?" -- Who ever said that Boeing did not share any blame? In its initial production version of MCAS, Boeing screwed up the Implementation of a long validated and practiced Concept of using software within the aircraft system's control feedback loop ... Boeing also neglected to use the full hardware potentials present in the product (eg, relying on just one AOA sensor at a time when two were available, etc) ... these are all well-known issues and are being "fixed" in order for re-certification to take place ... Additionally, Boeing did make a bad presumption about requiring MCAS to be exposed to pilots, since it was trying to forego requirements to re-qualify pilots for the MAX beyond the NG series. Airbus had successfully accomplished this "common cockpit" concept, but Boeing screwed up their efforts on the MAX ... As for the cockpit crews, did you read my prior post about this? The Final Investigation Report on the Lion Air crash dished out plenty of blame to go around (Boeing and FAA included) -- but it also focused on the fact that the co-pilot had inadequate flight experience to properly help the pilot handle such an anomalous situation that resulted in a (very unfortunate) crash ... it reported that, when the pilot handed control of the aircraft to the co-pilot, in order to attend to another matter, the co-pilot had no idea of what to do in order to properly sustain the anomalous flight behavior on his own ... furthermore, the same issue of training and experience was also found with the co-pilot on the Ethiopian Air crash ... It turns out that SE Asia and Africa suffer from shortages of sufficiently experienced airline pilots and some airlines, therefore, will put co-pilots into revenue flights with inadequate training and experience, unlike in other regions such as Australia, North Asia, North America, Europe, etc. Just compare the minimum number of flying hours' experience required to qualify as co-pilot in SE Asia and Africa vs. those other regions to see the contrasts! Just from an operational standpoint, while there have been several anomalous behavior with MCAS over its almost two years of revenue operations before the two crashes, all previous incidents were able to successfully recover, presumably because those co-pilots were able to properly assist in their recovery efforts (among many other reasons)! So it's not that anyone is intentionally stereotyping SE Asia and Africa, but the past circumstances were what they were ...

Jupiter — Sun, 24 Nov 2019 17:01:56 +0000

I am a big aviation fan and would love to ensure this Max issues is adequately resolved. One my key questions is how many MCAS failures have occured but have not resulted in serious crash risks?

The nice Paul — Sun, 24 Nov 2019 15:33:05 +0000

Whoosh!

KFTX888 — Sun, 24 Nov 2019 10:24:47 +0000

@The nice Paul -- "If you can’t even see the ludicrous contradictions at the heart of your position, maybe you’re not as rational as you’d like to think?" -- Sigh! You just might be one example of what I'm referring to, as you take one context and then conflate it with something else entirely -- when I refer to all of the obsession over punctuation usages, that's what I see as adopting something out of Political Correctness about "how" everyone should conform to some "social standard" of expression ... the part about rationality of thought has absolutely NOTHING to do with punctuation bashing! What I'm referring to, there, concerns rationality of thought as it relates to events, NOT "forms" of expression! As for your continuing criticism of my using exclamation points, I've now decided that you can use those the way that YOU want to, and I'm going to just use them the way that I want to! I now see NO POINT to conforming on that, anymore! It's MY right to express however I want to, anyway! Last I checked, there is STILL the 1st Amendment and Free Will on that! BTW -- at least I don't put multiple exclamation points in a row!

The nice Paul — Sun, 24 Nov 2019 10:08:12 +0000

@BillC “... Political Correctness that want to dictate only certain “approved” ways and methods for self-expressions) … if only the vast majority of the public-at-large were able to think rationally, and not react so totally emotionally” So let me see if I have understood. You are whining at huge length about people who apparently insist you only communicate in one way. And then you complain that nobody else is using what you insist is the only correct way to communicate — unemotionally (despite hundreds of people now dead), like some sort of desiccated automaton? If you can’t even see the ludicrous contradictions at the heart of your position, maybe you’re not as rational as you’d like to think? “... use of ... exclamations, and I’ve already agreed to try and moderate that, based on comments from others!” !!!!!! You just can’t resist them, can you? In what world was that sentence an exclamation? It makes no sense. Er...!