The pilots of the Lion Air and Ethiopian Air planes that crashed were not very experienced. In fact, the Lion Air pilot, from India, may have been a pay to fly pilot. (I avoid Lion Air at all costs because it has a very bad safety record in a country that is known for poor air line safety. I’d only fly Garuda and then only if there were no other options.) Unfortunately the public may never know how much lack of pilot training, pilot inexperience or pilot error contributed to both 737 Max crashes.
Actually, there is quite a lot of that information publicly available. This article goes into deep detail, but in a way accessible to non-airmen. I highly recommend it!
Don’t worry, I love bashing corporate and engineering as much as the next smug working guy. In these cases however, the airmanship of the pilots was utter trash. Totally disgraceful to the entire profession.
The pilots of the Lion Air and Ethiopian Air planes that crashed were not very experienced. In fact, the Lion Air pilot, from India, may have been a pay to fly pilot. (I avoid Lion Air at all costs because it has a very bad safety record in a country that is known for poor air line safety. I’d only fly Garuda and then only if there were no other options.) Unfortunately the public may never know how much lack of pilot training, pilot inexperience or pilot error contributed to both 737 Max crashes.
Actually, there is quite a lot of that information publicly available. This article goes into deep detail, but in a way accessible to non-airmen. I highly recommend it!
Thanks. I read that article when it came out. It was good to read it again. The whole 737 Max story in and will continue to be unclear.
Don’t worry, I love bashing corporate and engineering as much as the next smug working guy. In these cases however, the airmanship of the pilots was utter trash. Totally disgraceful to the entire profession.
And a damn fine reason to become a racist.