[Peace-discuss] Fwd: Boeing 737 Max 8

[Mildred O'brien]

Yesterday on Democracy Now Ralph Nader spoke of the sad news of the tragic death of his grandniece, granddaughter of his sister, one of the 157 who perished in the Ethiopian plane crash of Boeing's 737 Max 8/9.  She was on a health care mission in Africa representing her company on her first assignment of her new job after graduating from Amherst.  Nader called for the immediate grounding of the new Boeing 737 (unsafe at any speed) which as of that time before Pres. Trump was persuaded to make the call was grounded in most other countries except USA.  Nader recommends that people should refuse to fly on Boeing 737 Max planes.  How ironic it took another tragic plane crash to affect the family of our foremost consumer safety advocate and founder of Public Citizen .
I was reminded of a scary incident related by my brother, a TWA pilot  for 25 years who on his last flight before retirement was flying an old 707 charter carrying a soccer team to Los Angeles, when he couldn't get the landing gear lowered before approaching the airport.  He manually cranked the landing assembly in effort to engage the landing gear without success, repeated cranking until finally to their great relief was able to lower the wheels to safely land the plane.  That was more than 20 years ago before high tech and A.I. which now dominates the mechanics of the new "smart" aircraft that some pilots are not properly trained to operate in order to manually override computer-controlled automatic pilot, which complaints indicate is a design flaw. 
Midge O'Brien 


-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Weissman, Public Citizen <robert at citizen.org>
To: Midge O'Brien <moboct1 at aol.com>
Sent: Wed, Mar 13, 2019 1:42 pm
Subject: Boeing 737 Max 8

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 Midge, 
 
 Two Boeing 737 Max 8 planes have crashed in recent months — killing hundreds. 
 
 As a result, these planes are now grounded nearly everywhere in the world — except the United States. 
 
 Tell Boeing, the Federal Aviation Administration, American Airlines and Southwest Airlines to ground these planes immediately.
 
 Sign the petition now. 
 
 These planes cannot be permitted to fly until their safety issues are identified and resolved. 
 
 In the days since the crash of the Ethiopian Airlines flight, a lot of information has emerged suggesting Boeing and regulators should have acted earlier on specific safety issues — and that earlier action could have saved the lives of the 157 human beings killed. 
 
 In the days and weeks ahead, a lot more information is going to emerge, and we'll know a lot more. 
 
 But we have all the information we need to know that letting the Boeing 737 Max 8 planes continue to fly is reckless and inviting another tragedy. 
 
 Tell Boeing, federal regulators and the airlines to ground Boeing 737 Max 8 planes right now. 
 
 This is just a matter of common sense. 
 
 There are broader lessons here about regulatory failure, industry capture and more. 
 
 But for right now, the imperative is: Ground these planes. 
 
 Onward, 
 
 Robert Weissman
 President, Public Citizen 
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