https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/19/politics/chesley-sullenberger-boeing-737-max-scenario/index.html
Hudson River 10 years ago told a congressional panel Wednesday that he can "see
how crews could have run out of time" during the recent Boeing 737 MAX crashes
after he struggled to recover the plane in a simulator running recreations of
the doomed flights.
"I recently experienced all these warnings in a 737 MAX flight simulator during
recreations of the accident flights. Even knowing what was going to happen, I
could see how crews could have run out of time before they could have solved the
problems. Prior to these accidents, I think it is unlikely that any US airline
pilots were confronted with this scenario in simulator training," Chesley
"Sully" Sullenberger told the House Transportation Committee during a hearing on
the embattled plane model.
Sullenberger, whose "Miracle on the Hudson" landing in 2009 saved the lives of
all 155 people on board, told the panel that it's important pilots don't have
"inadvertent traps."
"We must make sure that everyone who occupies a pilot seat is fully armed with
the information, knowledge, training, skill and judgment to be able to be the
absolute master of the aircraft and all its component systems and of the
situations simultaneously and continuously throughout the flight," he said.
Pilots need physical, firsthand experience to be prepared for emergencies,
Sullenberger said.
"Reading about it on an iPad is not even close to sufficient," he said.
The Boeing 737 MAX has come under intense criticism after two planes of that
model recently crashed in Ethiopia and Indonesia, killing a total of 346 people.
Following the crash of the Ethiopian plane in March, 737 MAX jets were grounded
and the company has been working to come up with a fix to the automatic safety
feature that has been the focus of crash investigations. A time frame for the
737 Max's return to service has not yet been announced.
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