Boeing 737 Max
Let's face it, the 737 MAX likes to crash. The plane likes to crash so much that it will fight with its flight crew for minutes on end to dive into the ground. This is the real life scenario for the flight crew of the two Boeing 737 MAX airliners that insisted on diving into the ground despite their flight crews repeatedly ordering them not to. Sad part of this, I know who's responsible for these tragedies, ME. To be more accurate, cheap airline passengers like me.
Let's follow the chain of cheapness:
- Cheap passengers purchase the cheapest airline tickets at all cost
- Airliners run their business to deliver the cheapest tickets at all cost
- Airliners demand a new version of the 737 that's cheap and fuel efficient
- Airliners cannot afford any additional training hours for pilots to fly the 737 MAX
- Airliners demand that the MAX flies exactly like the older 737
- CFM International develops a new fuel efficient turbojet engine, the LEAP
- Boeing realizes that the LEAP engine will not fit underneath the 737
- Boeing remembers that the customer is always right
- Boeing makes the new engine fit by moving the new engines forward and up
- Boeing realizes that the placement of the new engines change the stall characteristic of the 737
- Boeing remembers that the customer is always right
- Boeing builds a new flight system (MCAS) to stop the MAX from nosing up and stalling
- Boeing "protects" everyone from this knowledge by not telling anyone
- Boeing doesn't introduce new training regarding the MCAS
- The MCAS is vulnerable to sensor error
- Boeing offers a warning light that tells the flight crew when the MCAS may be receiving faulty sensor data
- The airlines decide that the warning light is too expensive
- The airliners decide to order their 737 MAX airliners without the warning light
- Boeing remembers that the customer is always right
- A 737 MAX with faulty sensors wins a fight with its flight crew and dives into the ground
- Boeing writes this accident off as a freak incident
- Another 737 MAX with faulty sensors wins a fight with its flight crew and dives into the ground
- Everyone blames Boeing
- Boeing remembers that the customer is always right