Final Podcast #1

In 2020, Boeing released the 737 MAX to compete with Airbus. The rushed release led to insufficient pilot training. The MCAS system, designed to prevent crashes, caused the plane to nose dive. This resulted in crashes and controversy over who was to blame. The plane was grounded for two years until pilots were trained and the issues were fixed. The speaker believes the airlines are at fault for not adequately training their pilots, leading to tragic crashes. Hello, my name is Will Rouse, and I will be talking about MCAS system on the 737 MAX and its controversies. So back in 2020, Boeing released this new plane called the 737 MAX, and they were trying to compete with Airbus, who just released their brand new A320neo, really. The Boeing 737 MAX had a bunch of these new systems, and they rushed their plane out to just get it and start competing with Airbus. So they didn't train their pilots very well, they just wanted to get the plane out. So the pilots, there was a system called MCAS, and this stands for Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System, and basically this would correct the plane if it was stalling and about to crash. It would push the nose of the plane down to gain more speed. And the plane, it started thinking it was stalling, so the MCAS system would come in, and it would push the nose down of the plane. So that caused a bunch of crashes, and the pilots didn't know how to turn off the MCAS system. And there's a lot of controversies on it, and the plane was actually grounded for almost two years until Boeing trained their pilots and fixed the plane. So there's a controversy on what fault it was for the crashes. Was it Boeing's fault, the pilots' fault, or the airlines' fault? And I personally think it's the airlines' fault, because they didn't train their pilots well enough, and this caused two crashes, killing all people on board. Thank you, bye.