Malfunctions caused two deadly crashes. But an industry that puts unprepared pilots in the cockpit is just as guilty.
The New York Times investigates.
Ramesh Thakur is a professor emeritus at the Crawford School of Public Policy, the Australian National University.
Pilot training is obviously an important topic, but to suggest that the lack of it is what ‘really brought down’ the 737 Max is transparent whataboutery. There was a cause, it was a control system malfunction in the 737, as was quite clear from descriptions of both crashes. A deliberate muddying of the waters.