Boeing 737 Max 8 planes that crashed in Ethiopia and Indonesia lacked two optional pilot safety features that the company charges EXTRA for

The two Boeing 737 Max 8 jets that crashed in Ethiopia and Indonesia lacked two safety features in their cockpits that the aircraft manufacturer charges extra for but could have helped pilot detect erroneous readings.

The optional safety features - an angle of attack indicator and a disagree light - are not mandated by the Federal Aviation Administration and are currently only installed if the airline pays for the add-ons.

Lion Air Flight 610 and Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 were not equipped with the safety features, officials told the New York Times.

As investigators look into the cause of the crashes, attention has turned to a new software in the jets that takes readings from devices called angle of attack sensors. The software can essentially push a plane's nose down in some circumstances, for example when the sensors suggest the plane may be stalling.


The angle of attack indicator shows how much the aircraft's nose it tilted up or down. The disagree light activates if the two sensors in the plane's software do not agree.





Boeing will now make the disagree light free of charge as part of a forthcoming software update to the 737 MAX fleet in the wake of the two fatal crashes, officials briefed on the matter said on Thursday.

The manufacturer will also retrofit older planes with the light that did not initially receive it.

The angle of attack indicator will remain a feature that airlines can add on, officials said.

Boeing has not commented about the safety features.

The entire 737 MAX fleet has been grounded following the deadly crashes in Ethiopia and Indonesia that occurred just five months apart.

Faulty angle of attack sensors were blamed, in part, for the Indonesia disaster last October that killed 189 people. The sensors have also been at the center of initial investigations into this month's Ethiopia crash in which 157 died.

While the two features missing from those two planes are not required by regulators, experts said they were key to safety.

'They're critical, and cost almost nothing for the airlines to install,' Bjorn Fehrm, an analyst at the aviation consultancy Leeham, told the New York Times.

'Boeing charges for them because it can. But they're vital for safety.'

The feature is sold at an extra cost, which means some budget airlines like Lion Air have chosen not to fit them.


https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6835471/Boeing-says-optional-warning-light-fitted-standard.html




Imagine the greed
Those who lost their loved ones should be ready to sue the pants off Boeing!
RIP to Prof Pius, imagine preaching about the corruption in Africa and being killed by the corruption in America?
What a crazy world!

Medicine after death

Nawa oh! This life sef

babdap:
Medicine after death

Imagine the wickedness of these people,
They are not contented with using a gimmick and software make their poorly designed plane to fly?
They are also charging extra for what will prevent a crash!
It’s like you buying a car and paying extra for brakes to be installed
What a wicked and greedy bunch of people!

wicked manufacturer

HOW I WISH THEY CAN BE MORE PLANE PRODUCERS ASIDE AIRBUS TO GIVE THESE BOEING MOTHERF..KERS A RUN FOR THEIR MONEY FOR THIS WICKED AND INHUMAN REASON FOR THE PLANE CRASHES IF IT IS TRUE.