The pilot “Sulley” of Hudson landing fame states he will not fly on one ...
Two different interviews?
It looks like the same interview to me. And it looks like he definitely did
not say that he would not fly on one.
Today's
Sunday Times story:
Is the Boeing 737 Max safe?
The troubled plane is returning to the skies after two fatal crashes, but famous pilots and fearful flyers still have their doubts
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Chesley Sullenberger, who safely landed his stricken US Airways Airbus A320 on the Hudson River in New York in 2009,
claimed the Max is still dangerous. After testing the revamped jet in a simulator, he said Boeing had not made enough improvements. “I’m not going to say, ‘We’re done.’ It’s not as good as it should be,” he told The Seattle Times.
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The link within that story goes to a piece in the
Times on Monday 12 October 2020:
Boeing 737 Max is still dangerous, says Hudson river crash hero
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Chesley Sullenberger criticised Boeing’s failure to act on all the advice it had received when it revamped the faulty flight control software that led to two crashes of its 737 Max planes in 2018 and 2019. A total of 346 people died in the crashes in Indonesia and Ethiopia.
“I’m not going to say, ‘We’re done, good enough, move on,’” said Mr Sullenberger, who is known as Sully. “People are going to fly on it and I will probably be one of them,” he told
The Seattle Times.
The updated Max would eventually be as safe as the previous model of the long-serving 737 series but more steps were needed first. “It’s not as good as it should be,” he said. ...
And the
Seattle Times piece (9 October 2020) says:
Celebrated pilot Capt. Sully urges further updates to Boeing’s 737 MAX
Capt.
Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger isn’t satisfied that the fixes for Boeing’s 737 MAX proposed by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) are enough.
In an exclusive interview, the celebrated pilot said that even if the FAA ungrounds the jet next month as expected, additional modifications are needed as soon as possible to improve the plane’s crew alerting system and add a third check on the jet’s angle of attack data.
“I’m not going to say, ‘We’re done, good enough, move on,'” said Sullenberger.
“People are going to fly on it and I will probably be one of them,” he added. “The updated MAX will probably be as safe as the (previous model) 737 NG when they are done with it. But it’s not as good as it should be.”
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