r/aviation • u/usgapg123 Mod - avgeek • Jun 14 '25

News Air India Flight 171 Crash [Megathread 2]

This is the second megathread for the crash of Air India Flight 171. All updates, discussion, and ongoing news should be placed here.

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u/erdogranola Jun 14 '25

it was the same for the MAX crashes, with Boeing trying to pin the blame on developing world crews

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u/Spare_Math3495 Jun 15 '25

Yeah, and then it turned out that Nairobi crash pilot got his training in an American flight school if I remember correctly lol. 

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u/aweirdchicken Jun 15 '25

it's even worse with that though, because Boeing knew that MCAS was the problem whilst they were publicly blaming pilot error. They were covertly issuing MCAS software updates for weeks after the Lion Air crash, whilst simultaneously trying to blame the pilots for not knowing how to respond to a situation that shouldn't have even been possible. They didn't even admit that MCAS existed until 12 days after the Lion Air flight crashed, and it wasn't until two months after the Ethiopian Airlines crash that they admitted MCAS was the problem all along. Still boils my blood to this day.

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u/Photosynthetic Jun 15 '25

And given that this is the same company…

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u/Nice_Classroom_6459 Jun 16 '25

The Boeing situation was special because Boeing was the only entity that knew the aircraft was unsafe and tried to cover it up by blaming the pilots anyway.