"U.S. airlines operate within the most advanced, regulated aviation system in the world "
Do they or is this just more hype ?
737 MAX 8 Update - Southwest Airlines
Yeah ok, we know that's a furphy based on the anonymous submissions through to the FAA.
How do you know it’s a furphy?
What a long winded exercise in chest beating (that's how it seems to me). Just issue a statement that says "Safety is the number one priority at Southwest, and we have taken the directive of the manufacturer Boeing and the FAA to ground our aircraft while they further investigate the circumstances around the tragic crash of Ethiopian Airlines. We apologise for any inconvenience."
Simple, isn't it?
Well it’s a corporate public statement put out by a CEO. It come with spin. But the statement is as simple as it should be. How would you have written it?.
My view is that WN will have data from all their 737 flights including the MAX flights. Maybe they do think that from their POV the aircraft is good/safe. The ET302 crash is still under investigation and no answers are available yet.
So to say they are hiding something or not being truthful is just as crazy as your assertion that their statements are plain wrong. We armchair critics have no information - at all, none, zilch. They have. We may say it’s all spin but I don’t see how we can say we are more correct and yet some comments here seem to infer that the commentators now better, or have more information.
All we can do is read all statements with a bit of healthy skepticism. Hopefully the truth or the root cause of the crash will come out soon and some changes made.
They ALWAYS say that but especially US media constantly shout they they got the most advanced this and the most advanced that. Regulated could be, I'm no expert (but is it any less regulated in, say, Europe?). 'Advanced' is a matter of definition, isn't it. Their airports certainly often are not to start with
We can choose to believe them or not. However the aviation industry in the US is deep - from general aviation to the military to the commercials. They have more airports/airplanes/pilots of all sorts than anyone else. Now one could say that it’s just numbers but their size is massive and with that comes potentially a greater visibility of any shortcomings- prior to ET302 do you see any?. 1% of a million risk will declare itself more oftenwhen the number is a million than when the number is a 1000 with the same risk.
Their deep aviation culture also comes with many decades of often bitter experience which a lot of other countries absolutely lack. From those experiences they have invented/developed a lot aviation tools/procedures that are used worldwide.
No system is perfect but I would put the US aviation industry right up there with the best. “Most?” -yes it a hard call to say that with anything but among the best - most definitely.
Their airports?. Massive numbers of people go through them daily. Huge number of flights everyday. What’s that got to do with a crash investigation?
