A really wet day and Boeing what are you doing?

Well it pretty much rained all day which meant that we had a quiet day doing odd jobs around the house, cleaning bathrooms and Jennifer did some washing, so a really exciting day!
Noel caught up with some paperwork and bills which always follow you around the world and also started reading more about the fateful Boeing B737-8 Max aircraft crashes and was not happy to learn that there seems to have been, possible malpractice between the FAA and Boeing to enable the manufacturer to certify its own aircraft.

Back in the Obama Government days budgets were cut including that of the FAA and so no doubt aircraft Safety and Cortication was getting slower and Boeing was getting behind its main competitor Airbus who were developing new aircraft. Boeing decided, it is alleged,  took a short cut by reusing the original B737 aircraft design but added new bigger engines which due to size had to be moved to a different location on the wing or they would scrape the ground but this changed the balance of the aircraft. To overcome this balancing problem which could make the aircraft to stall in a high rate climb they introduced a new software, which was suspect, and it would appear they did not really give Airline crew training on this.
The short training was a 45 minute briefing on an I-Pad which you could read, or not as the case may be, this method was to be used as it was cheaper for Boeing and Airlines than retraining all the crew who had been told that this aircraft was virtually the same as the original 737 and so no doubt some crews did look at it but just to make matters worse it was not in the aircraft handbook?
So the US Department of Justice has become involved to look in to this matter and find out if Boeing risked peoples lives by hiding a known fault. Lets see what happens.
In the meantime I have written to my MP Mr Philip Hammond to tell him that I am disgusted with the PM and Government about the handling of Brexit and  still waiting for a reply which I doubt will not happen as he is too busy trying to save his own skin rather than follow the wish of the people.

To end the evening we watched an old British film called, Death at a Funeral, great slapstick film directed by Frank Oz of Muppet fame.