Originally Posted by
LarryJ
Who said it was ok?
Is that a serious question? I respect your views as I do with my fellow pilot friends, but trust has been lost, and Boeing screwed up. Here I am as a private pilot and I get nervous flying into COS from the south, with memories of what happened back in 91 with flight 585. I love and hate Boeing at the same time. Unless I misunderstood you and a few others, I was under the impression that the airplane is perfectly fine, and shame on the pilots for not dealing with it properly. I have dead friends (5 of them) that crashed in Sitka, AK many years ago. One month prior the owner installed new Garmin 430's in his 421. Thousands of hours of flying for him, and I was supposed to be on the airplane but I backed out for personal reasons minutes before departure. I will never know if me being onboard would have prevented the crash, or if I would have been victim # 6. Both accidents hit me personally, and as such I take flying a personal airplane or commercial very seriously.
I think and agree that you do as well, but sometimes the "blame the pilot and not the aircraft" doesn't sit well with me. The MAX has a flaw via software that was never communicated to anyone, and for that I will never forgive Boeing, despite my love of Boeing from the time I was a young child.