Boeing dominated the commercial passenger aircraft market for a long time, but it has lost its title as the world's biggest planemaker to Airbus because it's been making headlines for all the wrong reasons.
AF447 was pilot error and not cheapening out knowingly on the construction to save money.
The whole Boeing 737 is completely outdated and wouldn’t get approved today. Like they would have needed a new pilot warning system for years, but are just rolling by with exemptions after exemption
AF447 is sometimes blamed on lack of coupled sidesticks amongst other possible deficiencies in aircraft design. Pilot error doesn’t happen in a vacuum.
Certainly not the same situation as the 737, though.
Several years already… and eventually, it trickles down even into the hardest boneheads
Several years is ‘recent’ in aviation, compared to the high-profile early FBW crashes Airbus had and AF447.
AF447 was pilot error and not cheapening out knowingly on the construction to save money.
The whole Boeing 737 is completely outdated and wouldn’t get approved today. Like they would have needed a new pilot warning system for years, but are just rolling by with exemptions after exemption
AF447 is sometimes blamed on lack of coupled sidesticks amongst other possible deficiencies in aircraft design. Pilot error doesn’t happen in a vacuum.
Certainly not the same situation as the 737, though.