Sensor failure, failure to provide pilots with information contributed to 2009 Turkish Airlines Boeing 737 Max crash that killed nine people – New York Times
A growing number of airlines and countries around the world have grounded Boeing 737 Max jets or banned them from their airspace.
Boeing also failed to provide pilots with information that could have been critical to prevent the tragedies. Dekker's findings went unpublished by the Dutch Safety Board, which either erased or "amended" its findings in the face of pushback from an American team that included Boeing representatives and US safety officials.
But in carrying out the landing manoeuvre the aircraft had slowed too much, setting off shaking in the pilots' controls stick that warned the plane would quickly stall. One pilot then pushed the throttle forward to gain speed, but the computer commanded the engine idle as soon as he let go. The Dutch investigators determined the pilots were preoccupied with the landing checklist at that time.
The 737 NG has two sets of sensors and computers, one on the left side of the aircraft, and one on the right, with only one being in control most of the time. The pilots recognized the inaccurate altitude readings, noting that they were coming from the left sensor, and would have concluded that did not matter because the autothrottle would have been getting the correct information from the right, according to Dekker's findings.
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