Disturbing Rhetoric on Air Safety

I will begin by saying that I am no expert on the subject so I am open to be convinced otherwise about the coming rant. The photo above was one of my recent business trips that I flew across the US. While I believe that it wasn’t this one that I was on a 737 Max airplane manufactured by Boeing, I know for a fact that in one of my trips this year I was indeed in one of those models. Despite years of traveling for business and pleasure (I did live on an island for 20 years so bo choice), I have never been a fan of flying. Whereas people kickback and enjoy the flights, I take the time to read and work to keep my mind occupied during the flight. Luckily for me, at the moment I have no pending trips that require me to get on a plane!

The news that has been going around is quite disturbing when you look between the lines. I do not like hearing or reading news these days but given my interest on the subject, I have found myself glued to reading through the details, however fantastic or biased they may be. I have continued to be in awe about the disrespect we have customers and flyers have been given in the process as it seems that many of the issues have been known and given the forces of those controlling media, government and business have misdirected the issues.

To summarize as most of it is already out, the newest of the Boeing 737 fleets the 8 & 9 have now been involved in two accidents in the past 5 months claiming the lives of hundreds of passengers and crew members. The second that raised the question around the world was a couple of days ago and was similar in that the accident occurred shortly after takeoff. There seems to be a technical issue with the auto-pilot that makes the plane stall and lose its speed and thus the ascent. Talk about scary! Many continue to state that pilots that see experienced and well trained are well able to manage the situation to avoid catastrophe but the underlying issue is that there has been an issue for five months with no public disclosures even as those stakeholders have been involved in training and fixing the issue. That is the first disturbing issue.

However, the disgust does not end there as the United States were the last to ground the planes despite efforts of the airlines and the manufacturer to convince (successfully) the regulator (FAA) to allow the continuation of flights despite the risks involved! In fact, as the President announced the grounding, there were 35 flights in the air of these planes! When you hear this, it makes you think what are they thinking and who they care about?

When I first heard about the bans across Europe and being business minded first; I thought it was more a play by Airbus and its home region as a play to give an advantage over Boeing in reputation and negotiations as they constantly compete over new fleets. However, when you start to see the details of the players involved, it gets disgusting. For example, without mentioning names as it is not the point, the Board of Directors of these interested Companies are all former administration leaders in high governmental positions. The recent Ambassador to the UN just recently accepted another Board seat! To add injury to insult, it was said that they spent $50 million in lobbying last year in Washington. I know this isn’t normal for me but the only word I can think of for this is disgusting.

I started writing this thinking that the government would fail to act due to the pressures from above and am honestly at some ease when seeing the action taken. However, this was a disturbing display of power and control of the few over the safety and wellbeing of the masses. And for what? Profits of a couple of couple of planes and flights which represent such a low percentage of the total! As more spoke about this, other issues were raised such as the outsourcing of many maintenance programs of these airlines outside the US where regulations of the processes are more relaxed as well as the impact the government shutdown for inspections that are now delayed and unable to secure due process for certain reviews in the industry.

I am glad that my next trip is not on the calendar yet as I will be considering alternatives given the response by those mandated to ensure our safety in the air. My options may be limited but I would be willing to leverage more technology via video conferencing to remain safe. I even think trains could be an alternative if adequately planned. However, that industry has also suffered from similar issues of safety in the past due to similar issues! The possibilities are endless as we open our eyes to realize what is going on...

This article was written throughout the day so some was done before the eventual news of the grounding of the planes

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