Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 MAX crash radio recording reveals pilot's panic during doomed flight's final moments
An anti-stalling system on the plane - a Boeing 737 Max -has since been blamed for the disaster which made headlines around the world.
The Manoeuvring Characteristics Augmentation System flight-control feature was also implicated in a fatal crash involving a Lion Air flight in Indonesia last October. "We are going to do everything that we can do to ensure that accidents like these never happen again," Mike Sinnett, vice president for product strategy and future airplane development, told reporters.The FAA has agreed to significantly improve its oversight of organisations performing certifications on its behalf by July.
"With the software enhancements, we now have several layers of protection," American Airlines Captain Roddy Guthrie told reporters. The system will also be disabled if two airflow sensors that measure the "angle of attack," or angle of the wing to the airflow, a fundamental parameter of flight, offer widely different readings, Boeing said.
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