Comments by "Halfdan Ingolfsson" (@Halli50) on "CNBC Television" channel.

The simple fact that an anonymous database registers incidents that seemingly do not appear in FAA Aviation Safety Reports (ASR's) tells you that there is now something seriously wrong in the State of America (the US) aviation system. The basic premise of incident reporting is a so-called no-blame policy, i.e. anyone involved with aviation is supposed to be able to report actual or perceived incidents without risk of repercussion for the reporter. The fact that this kind of database exists AND ACTUALLY RECEIVES REPORTS is an indication that the no-blame policy is, in many cases, in name only.
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Greg hinted at an old aviation saying: "If you think Safety is expensive, just wait until you have an accident" - let a lone a string of them, the root cause usually ending up being lax quality control. Numerous Boeing whistleblowers have even told about quality checks being discontinued or outright eliminated! Greed is doing to Boeing what Dementia does to some old people.
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He may have been virtually illiterate when he became president but now he has actually practiced how to stumble haltingly through relatively simple teleprompter texts. What a beacon of intellect!
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Saying Boeing's quality control system is not working does not really cover this - many whistleblowers have testified that many quality checks were discontinued, not done anymore. Accordingly, Boeing's quality system is full of large holes.
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Indications are that skimping on crew training was an important factor in the Lion Air crash - and possibly the Ethiopian crash as well). If that turns out to be the case, the root cause will end up being corporate greed. There is an old quip in the aviation industry: If you think flight safety is expensive, just wait until you have a crash! Boeing might be about to experience just that scenario.
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The agreement was 2% by 2024 or 2025, NOT immediately. Making agreements with the US in the Trump era is obviously meaningless!
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One important point that is being ignored here, probably because it does not affect the markets, only the status of the US worldwide: The fact that the Ethiopians do NOT trust an US institution, in this case the NTSB, and prefer to have the French BEA decode the black boxes is a clear indication of the eroding status of the US globally. The cause is simply that "revolving door" between corporate America on one hand, and institutions & regulatory bodies on the other, have become so blurred that it borders on outright corruption.
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A money-man trying to talk his way around a deadly recurring problem caused by greed - with no real suggestion of solving the root cause of the problem: Expensive quality control measures that were discontinued or eliminated!
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Wishful thinking on behalf of the speculators: The 737 MAX might be released to service but it remains to be seen if the traveling public will have anything to do with this.
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...and another safety/quality gloss-over at Boeing in the works. This will NOT end well for either investors or the traveling public.
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@kalmorning , well - yes. The MCAS was a measure to minimize conversion training. One can speculate that relying on a single AOA sensor to guide the MCAS, without cross-checking the other AOA sensor, was a serious Boeing and FAA (regulatory) blunder. The investigation will determine if that was the case, until then we will all be speculating. The most serious blunder might apparently be NOT including MCAS information in the conversion training. The correct response might have been IN the QRH, but the QRH is basically irrelevant when you are fighting the controls relatively close to the ground. There is simply no time to mess with the QRH.
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The most likely problem: Boeing engineers no longer control all design, quality and safety issues, management and sales have the final say, which is probably why the MCAS design, documentation and training ended up in the shape is was.
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