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Captain John Leahy FRAeS, an expert* in airline safety and pilot training with over 30,000 flying hours, offers a personal view of the Netflix documentary ‘Downfall’ and highlights potential lessons from the Boeing 737 MAX tragedy. We have reproduced John’s views in full as under, and they are the views of this website and many […]

Captain JOHN LEAHY FRAeS offers a personal view of the Netflix documentary 'Downfall' and highlights potential lessons from the Boeing 737 Max tragedy.

Before the crash killed 189 people aboard. authorities are not commenting. analysts say the training was insufficient. >> it must have been just horrifying in the cockpit. for the professionals. its been stated it should have been a memory item. clearly it wasnt. >> whats more bloomberg reports the jet had the same problem the day before and was saved because an off duty pilot in the cockpit told the crew to cut power to the automatic system. still the plane took off again. >> this is what i cal...

Unaware they are battling a computer. this is what they are reporting tonight from sources familiar with the lion air crash last fall. they said the crews seemed oblivious to the fact that the tail was automatically tilting. they thought only about air speed and altitude. one pilot issued a short prayer before the crash killed all 189 people aboard. boeing and indonesian authorities are not excellenting. they say the training was insufficient. >> it must have been horrifying in the cockpit for t...

Quickly and can cause you to go into a dire dive very quickly, so you have to know off the top of your head how to do it and for some reason they didnt put two and two together and realize that. >> why wouldnt they? is that something you would link to the training that boeing was supposed to provide on this? there have been a lot of complaints that boeing didnt provide enough. peter, what do you think? >> i think its also -- its not also boeings responsibility. its the air carriers responsibilit...

Sure it is repaired and this is going to make lion air review their safety procedures. >> you said the fix was buried in the flight manual. so it is in the flight manual, is that right? >> im saying, how you shut off the mcas system is in the flight manual. >> you have to make that cognitive leak. >> and you have to make the analysis. to that point, reuters is now reporting from the voice recorder in the lion air flight that the pilots were scouring the flight manual. this is what -- as the plan...