On Mon, 27 Jan 2020 06:40:29 -0800 (PST), trader_4
wrote:

On Sunday, January 26, 2020 at 9:21:36 PM UTC-5, Clare Snyder wrote:
On Sun, 26 Jan 2020 18:40:08 -0700, rbowman
wrote:

On 01/26/2020 02:11 PM, wrote:
On Sat, 25 Jan 2020 11:17:36 -0800 (PST), trader_4
wrote:

I agree the training was lacking but it seems the 3d world airlines
had all the trouble, in spite of flying the max a fraction of what
airlines like Southwest were flying.

Which again is totally unfair. The AOA sensors only failed on two
aircraft, LionAir and Ethiopian Air.

That is certainly what lead to two crashes but I haven't really heard
anyone say those were the only two AOA sensor failures.


I had the impression there were other failures but for competent pilots
it was just another day on the job.

I'll bet it scared the heck out of even the "competent" ones when it
first happened - - -


It didn't happen on any other flights, there were just three flights.
How many AOA sensors would fail in a few hundred planes that are just
a year old?


I would expect it would show up with the airline that has the most
maxes and flies the most miles in them, not two in some obscure
airline in the 3d world with very little flight experience in them.
.... unless this is some kind of maintenance issue that they have been
slow to point out.

It is also possible that a good pilot would have caught the failure
early, mitigated the problem and continued on his way without scaring
the hell out of the passengers. Maybe they just spent the extra few
bucks and bought the light that indicated the AOA failure.