FAA Approved 737 MAX After Its Own Analysis Showed Risk of Crashes 11DEZ19

THIS is not a failure of just the FAA. It is boeing and all the politicians of both parties who have gone along with the notorious repiglican plan originating with the grover norquist cabal to shrink the federal government to "fit in a bathtub" and pay the tax dollars saved to the rich. Finally a lot of the American electorate who kept electing these politicians because they greedily believed in trickle down economics and accepted less government regulation and service in servitude to the rich, the wealthy, the 1%.  It is unfortunate innocents in other countries ended up paying for our greed. From Reuters / The The Daily Beast..... 

FAA Approved 737 MAX After Its Own Analysis Showed Risk of Crashes

The Federal Aviation Administration’s own analysis reportedly showed Boeing 737 MAX jets could have one fatal crash every two or three years—but it decided to allow the planes to fly anyway. The Wall Street Journal reports that U.S. regulators carried out an analysis showing the MAX could become one of the most accident-prone airliners in decades if its design wasn’t changed. The analysis came in November 2018—after the Lion Air crash in Indonesia, but before the Ethiopia Airlines crash. It predicted as many as 15 similar catastrophic accidents globally over the life of the MAX fleet, which was expected to span between 30 to 45 years, unless fixes were made to an automated flight-control system. After completing the risk assessment, the FAA decided to allow the MAX to remain in service with two safeguards—installing revised flight-control software and telling crews how to respond to a misfire. An FAA spokesman said: “It was clear from the beginning that an unsafe condition existed,” adding that the analysis “provided additional context in helping determine the mitigation action.”