Sunymoore:
@CNNAfrica was busy blaming Ethiopia airline and Africa for the crash. Fake news station

mexzony:
This is what happens when you try to have software to correct a hardware/design fault. mCas should not have to come in beacause the airplane has a tendency to tilt upwards due to the large engines. It should be so redundant that it comes up in critical situations which are of course critical and not as a result of inherent design fault.

mexzony:

Yeah you have a point there.but let me summarize what am trying to say. "remove mCAS from the plane and does the plane have an issue with tilting up? Yes it does so for me not good enough.
Now other Boeing plane models that don't have mCAS do they have this issue of Bose tilting up? No.
Now can you see where I am coming from.?
Boeing had better make sure they implement the right solution cos this plane self even with the upgrade Na still one eye I go take dey look am.

dingbang:
I wonder why one will operate an aircraft that he or she wasnt properly trained to handle.

Debaks1:

Lol.... I get you..
You knw....technology moves by learning from mistake...
This flaw just happened to cost 157 lives...but they will definitely learn from it....
Me I think they should invest more in passenger safety measures in case of extreme situations such as this...

Tobechuckwu:

CNNAfrica is just trying to defend d company, but they ought to have ask this question of worldwide grounding of the air flight.

ThothHermes:
Chicken change. Boeing will pay it without breaking a sweat.

MobilityExpress:


Softwares don't just react, and it's not a sensor problem. It is a software (programming) problem. That's why they are not replacing sensors, rather they are updating the software. Which means their programmers erred and Boeing just killed nearly 400 people, let that sink in.

NigeriaDecides:
CNN? I CAN'T REMEMBER THE LAST TIME I TUNED TO THEIR PROGRAM, THEY'RE BUNCH OF HATERS... ALJAZEERA FOR ME ANYTIME ANYDAY

TWOWAYMIRROR:
What if the update still has error, to test it, the jet will still fly, who will fly it for testing?

Neoteny:


You're wrong

Software (not softwares) are designed to react to situations, especially the MCAS which is designed to correct the plane's attitude or flight characteristics especially in stall conditions or uncommanded pitchup during thrust. That's all MCAS was designed to do: REACT.

In the case of the two crashes MCAS reacted to false sensor data, meaning the readings were offscale, and MCAS reacted to the false data by pitching down using the horizontal stabilizer trim controls to avoid what it falsely thought was a stall condition.

Now where the software erred was in turning itself back on several times after the pilots switched it off, and refused to allow manual control to the pilots.

Before the preliminary report i said this was what happened given the Lion Air crash and the report proves me right.

I'm something of an authority on airplanes and flight dynamics so i know what I'm talking about.

joey150:
This crash would have been avoided if the pilot simply deactivated the MCAS and flew the plane manually.

Other pilots had reported similar problem with the 737 and all they did was turn off the MCAS and flew the plane manually till it leveled again.

Why both the Ethiopian and Lion Air Crew didn't think to switch off the MCAS is still mysterious. The simple answer is that they didn't even know it existed to know to turn it off when the plane was nose-diving.

Boeing included a new safety feature in their 737 jets and somehow decided to not completely disclose it.

OShepherd:
This is where I have challenges & this boils down to experience but was it really proven that some folks had similar MCAS issues with Max8 series?

Pangea:


Read the story or the update from Ethiopian airways
They deactivated
It still didn’t work
The pilot did everything and the plane still crashed!

Rosskii:
So it wasn't the Ethiopian pilot's fault afterall, whereas, some of you were claiming ''it must have been pilot error'' that caused the crash.

One nairalander even said something about ''Africans and incompetence'' etc etc.

Bunch of stupid, self-hating nitwits (You know yourselves).

joey150:


I haven't read any official report stating that the pilots actually switched off the MCAS. ( not just turn it off but actually deactivate it).


I would very much appreciate a link to any of such or similar report.

However, if they did, then chances are they did it when the plane was already plunging down to the ground.

profmallor:
This world is a sad place, when you sit and think of the level of scandal and fraud that must have occurred between Boeing and the FAA just to get Boeing to beat Airbus into flying a more fuel efficient plane. The CEO of Boeing must go to prison for this, cause they toyed with peoples lives knowing the ad changes the entire designs of those planes but lied to airlines/pilots that nothing had changed - just to make profits. Anyone could have been on those planes, because they were actually brand new planes(coffin). One lesson I take from this is, dont be so eager to try anything new(be it a car, phone, airplane) if you have a choice, White men lie just as we blacks do. Cause in those their evil board rooms profit is all they care about. Secondly, question every one, question your doctors, your teachers you have a right to know what ever they do that might affect you. Of course Boeing would pay for the damages, but is that ever really a monetary replacement to a dead loved one?. and I wont be surprised that these 737 max planes would find their ways back quietly into the air spaces

Pangea:


My brother, no be small thing o
I’m especially saddened by the death of Prof. Akinsanmi
His focus was calling to attention the corruption in Africa
And to be killed by the corruption in America
This life, enh?

whirlwind7:


Same test pilots that certified the flawed MCAS as ok, right?

Rosskii:
So it wasn't the Ethiopian pilot's fault afterall, whereas, some of you were claiming ''it must have been pilot error'' that caused the crash.

One nairalander even said something about ''Africans and incompetence'' etc etc.

Bunch of stupid, self-hating nitwits (You know yourselves).

Pangea:
RIP Prof Akinsanmi and others
Imagine, the level of greed in Boeing that lead to this
And they even failed to ground their planes after the Lion air crash in Indonesia
If they had done the necessary thing
Those who died in Ethiopia would have been alive
Wicked company!

Tobechuckwu:

CNNAfrica is just trying to defend d company, but they ought to have ask this question of worldwide grounding of the air flight.

Rosskii:
So it wasn't the Ethiopian pilot's fault afterall, whereas, some of you were claiming ''it must have been pilot error'' that caused the crash.

One nairalander even said something about ''Africans and incompetence'' etc etc.

Bunch of stupid, self-hating nitwits (You know yourselves).

joey150:


I haven't read any official report stating that the pilots actually switched off the MCAS. ( not just turn it off but actually deactivate it).


I would very much appreciate a link to any of such or similar report.

However, if they did, then chances are they did it when the plane was already plunging down to the ground.

SIRTee15:

Yes they did....
The pilots followed every Boeing 737 max protocols.....
Black box actually proved the pilots ditched off the MCAS and tried flying the plane manually but the plane wouldn't gain altitude......
Pls let's put the blame at the right feet which is Boeing....
They built a plane with very faulty design....
The 737 max was a disaster in waiting and the world did well to have grounded it.....

All these talk about experience of the pilots are just excuses.....
Africa's entry into regular flight transportation is very much recent compared to the rest of the world.....
So, I don't understand where people expect African airlines to get adequate number of pilots with gazillion flight hours.....
People may say we should employ foreign pilots, but if we don't train our own and allow them in cockpit.....
How are they going to acquire the skills and the flight hours needed to be experienced pilots....

Pls we Africans should take pride in ourself for once and not allow inferiority complex override our sensibility....
Boeing and the FAA messed up big time on this issue and will need to do a lot to regain public trust....