Boeing's Unethical Practices - PDF
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Boeing's Unethical Practices - PDF
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Executive SummaryDuring the last two years, two Boeing 737 Max 8 airplanes have crashed shortly after their take off. The first place crashed near Jakarta on October 28, 2018. The second crashed near Addis Ababa, Ethiopia on March 10, 2019. The crashes took away the lives of 346 innocent passengers as well as the crew members [ CITATION Tif19 \l 16393 ]. As observed from the black box data of the crashed planes, it is indicated that unethical practices as well as the bad engineering practices and plane design was the resign behind both the plane crashes. Both thecalamities were caused due to the faulty sensor which repeatedly made the nose of the plane to push downwards. Soon after the crashes, FAA i.e. the Federal Aviation Administration ordered an emergency grounding of all the Boeing 737 Max planes.The paper discusses the unethical behaviour of the Boeing that claimed many lives. If reports are to be believed, Boeing used to charge extra for their relatively simple as well as cheap warning displays in the cockpit through which pilots are alerted about any divergent sensor readings. Therefore, the use of the relatively cheap displays shows how unethical the practices of Boeing were. As a result, the aviation as well as the tourism industry is at a high risk of losing their customers and visitors after such calamities and disasters [ CITATION Tif19 \l16393 ]. It has been observed that significant number of people all over the world have developed fear of getting into the plane after these deadly crashes. The grounding of the planes have impacted the tourism industry to a certain limit. However, the most affected are the airlines that used to use Boeing planes for their carrier flights. It has been observed that among all the airlines the most affected are the Southwest Airlines that have the maximum number of Boeing Max aircrafts as compared to all the other US airlines. In order to continue to operate and to fly in future, Boeing need to restore the trust of the public by making improvements in its software and its Max fleet. Boeing needs to make 2
efforts in order to reassure the public by giving specific software training to their pilots. Therefore the paper will discuss the recommendations for the Boeing in order to resume its services and return back to sky again. 3
IntroductionThe recent air accidents that involved two Boeing 737 Max 8 planes have raised safety concerns among the passengers all over the world. One Boeing 737 Max 8 plane, Lion Air flight 610 crashed in Indonesia on October 29, 2018 shortly after its take off and took away the lives of almost 189 on board. In the similar manner, another Boeing 737 Max 8 plane, Ethiopian Airlines flight 302 crashed in Ethiopia on March 10, 2019 that resulted in almost 157 fatalities [ CITATION Tif19 \l 16393 ]. As per the investigations, it has been observed that pilots had experienced some navigation errors as well as problems with the aircraft’s airspeedand angle sensors on the same aircraft the previous day. This has raised the concern about thesafety of the passengers and the air travel. Also, it has been observed that the pilots were not provided adequate training about the new software and the new designs and hence the pilots did not possess adequate knowledge about how automation would respond under specific circumstances. This led to these two fatal crashes which claimed almost 346 lives. As a result, FAA as well as China and European Union together took the decision to ground the services of the Boeing 737 Max 8 airplanes until the errors are fixed and the safety of the passengers is ensured. This was followed by the official order from the American President who announced that FAA should issue the grounding orders of the Boeing 737 Max 8 fleet onthe urgent basis.4
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