It's going to be interesting to see how this all plays out. They found another problem with the Max, but probably unrelated to the crashes. Myself, I formerly preferred to fly Boeing because their planes weren't exclusively fly-by-wire. If something began to go wrong, the pilots still had some mechanical control. That appealed to me. Airbus is entirely FBW. But with crap like this coming to light - maybe Airbus is the safer aircraft. When we flew trans-Atlantic to Germany four years ago, we flew a 747 Denver to Frankfurt and an Airbus Berlin to New Jersey, and the return was definitely more comfortable, but we were also upgraded to "Coach Plus" and had slightly roomier seating.
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Date: 2019-06-29 05:16 pm (UTC)It's going to be interesting to see how this all plays out. They found another problem with the Max, but probably unrelated to the crashes. Myself, I formerly preferred to fly Boeing because their planes weren't exclusively fly-by-wire. If something began to go wrong, the pilots still had some mechanical control. That appealed to me. Airbus is entirely FBW. But with crap like this coming to light - maybe Airbus is the safer aircraft. When we flew trans-Atlantic to Germany four years ago, we flew a 747 Denver to Frankfurt and an Airbus Berlin to New Jersey, and the return was definitely more comfortable, but we were also upgraded to "Coach Plus" and had slightly roomier seating.