Boeing 737 Max 9s grounded after panel break
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This will happen more and more untill we get more and more plane crashes.
It's a combination of diversity hiring in ATC's, pilots and maintenance cutbacks. Plus there'll be a plane crash at some point because a pilot has a "safe and effective" event mid flight.
They won't ban flights, so they'll make it so dangerous and scary that the sheeple will no longer will travel by air. Road-trip vacations only will eventually turn into 15 minute cities. Of course, the rich will still have airports to land their private jets, which conveniently will get restaffed with actually good people once the riff-raff are effectively banned.
I've been wondering why they don't do that as well. Making flying so dangerous that people will want to avoid it (hell, right now, it's probably 'too' safe in that the marginal safety loss is lesser than the amount of hassle and nonsense people put up with at the airport). You don't even need to make it that unsafe, as the fear of dying in a flying inferno is so great that people will still fear it if there are a couple of accidents a month - even if flying remains vastly safer than driving.
Yet they are not doing this. Why? Possibly because of the aforementioned instinctive reaction to airplane crashes. It's thoroughly investigated, heads will roll, and there is accountability as one of the few places in the West.
Surely, with autopilots and co-pilots, they can safely land the plane even if the pilot dies? With the number of flights, I can't imagine that this has never happened.
They do happen from time to time. Here are a few from last year.