It’s an issue that the crash’s investigators will almost certainly want to explore in depth, safety advocates say. The inability of the Ethiopian Airlines pilots to use the wheels - safety experts argue over whether it was more the result of Boeing’s design or pilot actions - is a critical part of what led to the crash that killed 157 people and the subsequent grounding of Boeing’s best-selling model.
On Flight 302, the jet hit the ground at 575 mph after a dive so severe that mobile phones and other loose items in the plane would have slammed against the ceiling with twice the force of gravity.
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The conclusions will help determine how the FAA revamps pilot training requirements and procedures in the wake of the crashes - not only for the Max but for thousands of earlier 737 models that share the same system design.īoeing updated the software for its 737 simulators twice in recent weeks because they didn't accurately replicate the forces on the wheels. Federal Aviation Administration disputed a report that those evaluations are delaying the certification process. It appears that in the panic, one or both of them managed to turn the wheels backward.Īnalyzing whether a range of pilots are capable of turning the wheels in emergencies has been part of safety reviews being conducted before the plane can be returned to service, although the U.S. Yared Getachew simply couldn’t manage to turn them as they faced a chaotic onslaught of alarms and failures isn’t clear.
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