Timeline for How did the Brazilian Civil Aviation Authority have MCAS on paper from Jan 2018?
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| Jan 1, 2020 at 3:53 | vote | accept | George Clooney In a Mooney | ||
| Dec 31, 2019 at 17:54 | comment | added | Zach Lipton | And the document you've posted is exactly part of that process. MCAS is listed as a difference between the 737 models on the Operator Difference Requirements, and regulators have a whole process where the manufacturer demonstrates the significance of each difference and the level of training required for pilots on the change. | |
| Dec 31, 2019 at 17:48 | comment | added | Zach Lipton | Some pilots didn't know about it, or didn't know enough about it, and there's considerable question about Boeing hiding the reality of the system from regulators, but that's different than the basic existence of the system being a secret. Boeing at the time was "jedi-mind tricking regulators into accepting the training that I got accepted by F.A.A," essentially convincing regulators that while the system existed and was certified, it didn't need to be included in the pilots manual or differences training. | |
| Dec 31, 2019 at 13:46 | answer | added | John K | timeline score: 6 | |
| Dec 31, 2019 at 11:25 | comment | added | George Clooney In a Mooney | @ZachLipton from what I know, reading the many articles that have been published by the media, pilots nor airlines knew about MCAS. | |
| Dec 31, 2019 at 10:26 | comment | added | Zach Lipton | I'm not really understanding the question here. MCAS wasn't a secret, so I'm not sure it's surprising a regulator was aware of its existence. There are certainly arguments that regulators didn't scrutinize it enough, that pilots weren't given enough training on it, etc... but it's not as if the Brazilian authorities were the only people to know of its existence. | |
| Dec 31, 2019 at 9:35 | history | asked | George Clooney In a Mooney | CC BY-SA 4.0 |