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Boeing and the battle over blame By Theo Leggett and Simon Browning

regulators are satisfied it is completely safe. But if the aircraft control systems themselves were faulty, why have attempts been made by Boeing and some US politicians - to cast a share of the blame onto the crew of the stricken aircraft? Among the fiercest critics of the crew’s actions in the US has been Congressman Sam Graves, himself a qualified pilot and Ranking Member of the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure in the House of Representatives. The Missouri Republican thinks that the crew of ET302 could have saved their plane.

tanding in a muddy field on the edge of a small farm to the south of the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa, it’s difficult to imagine that 157 men, women and children lost their lives here. The landscape is vast, with rolling plains to the west that appear to go on forever. It’s broken up by small clusters of trees spread across the yellow-and-brown arable land. Against a backdrop of undulating hills, there is a large, circular wooden fence. Slim, single batons reaching about head height, stand up from the ground. Beyond it lies a crater some 27m (90ft) wide and 36.6m (120ft) long. This is where, just over three months ago, Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 nose-dived into the ground at 500mph, just six minutes after leaving Addis Ababa. Mounds of earth are piled up where excavators have sifted through the wreckage. Here in Hama Kuntuschule, where the local population still travels by horse and cart, people from 35 different countries as far away as Canada, China and the UK, lost their lives. A small group of men walk towards us. One of them, Kelele, tells us that he was here on 10 March when the plane crashed. Kelele “The time was early morning and we were all in the house, taking our breakfast. No-one saw what happened at the time,” he says. “We just heard a sound. When we got out we just saw something burning and smoking.” Almost immediately, the land was besieged by diggers, air crash investigators, government officials, men and women walking in lines combing through the debris and charred personal belongings. And, of course, the families of the victims who had gathered to grieve. The crash site in March 2019 It is a different sight today. It’s very quiet and the more obvious pieces of wreckage have been taken away. But debris remains, catching your eye wherever you turn. Scraps and shreds of fabric, a piece of leather - possibly the strap of a bag. A small, square chunk of metal still bears the distinctive black, yellow and green paint of the Ethiopian Airlines livery. The process of being ripped from the fuselage has left it jagged and contorted. Fragments of a honeycomb-like material, flecked with white paint, are scattered widely across the rich dark mud. It’s all that remains of the aircraft’s interior. Debris from the crash It’s hard to comprehend the violence of what happened here - that a brand new modern jet could be obliterated in an instant, that this place is a mass grave. The victims’ families have long since left the site. Their memorials and floral tributes have been removed. The crash site, June 2019 But the fate of flight ET302 has not been forgotten. It is still the subject of intense debate and concern, particularly in corridors of power in the US. The plane was a new design - a 737 Max, an updated version of Boeing’s long-serving workhorse, the 737 - and the crash was the second accident involving that model in the space of just a few months. Now Boeing is facing serious questions about the way in which the new plane was conceived and brought to market.

Mourners visit the crash site of Ethiopian Airlines Flight ET302 The US Department of Justice is reportedly including some 1400 on 737s. His first officer, carrying out a criminal inquiry. Numerous however, had just 361 hours, including 207 on lawsuits have been launched against the Boeing 737s. The Ethiopian government had taken aerospace giant by relatives of the crash victims. Amid all of this, a great deal of attention charge of the investigation, which was helped has been focused on the pilots of the aircraft, by the relatively quick recovery and analysis of the action they took during the fatal flight and the aircraft’s flight recorders. It concluded that whether the training they were given by their the crew had done nothing wrong. “The crew performed all the procedures employer, Ethiopian Airlines, gave them the - repeatedly - provided by the manufacturer, skills they needed to avert disaster. but was not able to control the aircraft,” said Dagmawit . Were the pilots to blame? When the preliminary report was published Captain Yared Getachew after the crash, Ethiopian transport minister However, this conclusion has been Dagmawit Moges appeared keen to exonerate Capt Yared Getachew and First Officer challenged by people who believe the pilots committed a series of errors. Ahmednur Mohammed Omar. The trigger for the accident - and the root Yared was a relatively seasoned pilot, with more than 8,000 flying hours on his record, cause of another crash involving a near-identical 737 Max off Indonesia last year - is thought to have been the failure of a system known as Manoeuvring Characteristics Augmentation System (MCAS). What now seems apparent with the benefit of hindsight is that MCAS had design flaws. Boeing itself has indicated as much. MCAS is a piece of flight control software designed to make the new plane easier and more familiar to fly for pilots who were already used to the previous generation of 737 – reducing the need for potentially costly extra training. It was meant to curb a tendency for the nose of the aircraft to rise too much, when it was already pitched up at a steep angle. It used the stabilisers - the horizontal wings on the tail of the aircraft, which are normally used to keep the aircraft balanced - to produce a nose-down movement. However, the system relied on data from a single sensor on the outside of the aircraft to determine the angle at which the aircraft was flying. The failure of that one sensor could lead to the system deploying at the wrong time forcing the aircraft into a descent. It appears to have done just that on both the Boeings that crashed, forcing the nose of the aircraft down when the pilots were attempting to gain height. The system was also very powerful, able to produce significant stabiliser movements, and capable of overriding the crews’ own inputs as it activated again and again. After the second crash, authorities around the world grounded the 737 Max. Boeing is working on modifications to the software, and the design will not fly again until

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However, the system relied on data from a single sensor on the outside of the aircraft to determine the angle at which the aircraft was flying. The failure of that one sensor could lead to the system deploying at the wrong time forcing the aircraft into a descent

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Congressman Sam Graves He has been a vocal presence at hearings in Washington involving both the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the National Transportation Safety Board as part of the inquiries and investigations surrounding the 737 Max. In May, Graves insisted that “facts in the preliminary report reveal pilot error as a factor”. He went on to claim that “pilots trained in the US would have successfully been able to control this situation”. That is a controversial view, but one based on the way in which the pilots reacted to the situation confronting them. Nor is he alone in his opinion which is widely reflected in statements made by others online and in the media. Before the Lion Air crash off Indonesia - in which 189 people were killed - the very existence of MCAS was unknown to airlines buying the 737 Max, or to their flight crews. The acronym did not appear in the flight manual. After the accident, however, Boeing published a bulletin in which it described the effects of an MCAS malfunction, and instructed pilots to follow a particular “non-normal checklist” designed to help them cope with uncontrolled stabiliser movements. This checklist - which is meant to be memorised by flight crew - instructed them to flip switches on the centre console, to turn off the stabiliser electronics, then balance the aircraft using manual trim wheels beside the pilots’ knees. The Ethiopian crew tried to follow this procedure. They turned off the electronics and attempted to “trim” the aircraft - to bring it back into level, balanced flight - using the hand controls. But the preliminary report suggests that they were physically unable to do so. It appears the aircraft was simply going too fast, and the aerodynamic forces building up on the stabilisers were too strong for the pilots to overcome with muscle power. They turned the electronics back on and ultimately lost control altogether. This is where Graves’ main criticisms come in. He points out that throughout the flight, the pilots failed to reduce power from the levels used immediately after take-off, allowing the plane to continue accelerating to the point where it was moving too quickly to be trimmed manually. “Once they set those throttles to full power, they never retarded them,” he told the committee. “They accelerated right through the certified maximum speed… and just kept on accelerating.” What went wrong inside Boeing’s cockpit? During the same hearing, under questioning from Graves, the acting head of the FAA, Dan Elwell, appeared to agree with him. “They did turn the [stabiliser trim switches] off, but they never controlled their airspeed,” he said. “And then subsequently… they turned them back on. Both of those things are unfortunate.” Srouce: BBC

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