{"id":264823,"date":"2019-03-18T04:51:36","date_gmt":"2019-03-18T04:51:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=264823"},"modified":"2019-03-18T04:51:36","modified_gmt":"2019-03-18T04:51:36","slug":"boeing-737-max-crash-raises-tough-questions-on-aircraft-automation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/boeing-737-max-crash-raises-tough-questions-on-aircraft-automation\/","title":{"rendered":"Boeing 737 Max crash raises tough questions on aircraft automation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Enders just couldn\u2019t resist the swipe at the competition. It was June 2011, and the chief executive officer of Airbus SE was on a stage at the Paris air show after the planemaker won in a matter of days an unprecedented 600 orders for its upgraded A320neo airliner, while Boeing Co. stood on the sidelines.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf our colleagues in Seattle still maintain we\u2019re only catching up with their 737, I must ask myself what these guys are smoking,\u201d Enders blurted out, to the general amusement of the audience, while Boeing representatives at the back of the room looked on.<\/p>\n<p>Boeing had wavered on its decision whether to follow Airbus\u2019s lead and re-engine the 737 or go with an all-new aircraft. Customers were willing to wait for \u201csomething more revolutionary,\u201d as Jim Albaugh, at the time Boeing\u2019s head of commercial aircraft, said then.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Enders just couldn\u2019t resist the swipe at the competition. It was June 2011, and the chief executive officer of Airbus SE was on a stage at the Paris air show after the planemaker won in a matter of days an unprecedented 600 orders for its upgraded A320neo airliner, while Boeing Co. stood on the sidelines. \u201cIf our colleagues in Seattle still maintain we\u2019re only catching up with their 737, I must ask myself what these guys are smoking,\u201d Enders blurted out, to the general amusement of the audience, while Boeing representatives at the back of the room looked on. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,167,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-264823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-civil-aviation-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264823\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}