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According to CBS News Bay Area: All Alaska Airlines flights nationwide were grounded Wednesday morning due to a computer issue, the airline said. The Federal Aviation Administration said the airline asked the FAA to institute the ground stop Wednesday morning.
Apparently the airline was performing an upgrade to its system that calculates weight and balance when a problem was detected that forced the shutdown order from FAA officials. The stop order was instituted at 7:50 a.m. PT Wednesday morning. Alaska apologized to passengers for the inconvenience and said that it was working to resolve the issue as quickly as possible.
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The decision to ground all of their aircraft probably saved lives!
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Having computer dealing with weights and balances would be pretty important, yes!
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On one of my recent flights between Las Vegas and Tampa, the stewardesses were having people move more to the rear of the cabin, that must have been about balancing the aircraft. Kind of scary, isn’t it?
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Yes, that would give me pause…
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The common yet questionable refrain incredibly still prevails amongst ‘free-market’ capitalist nation governments and corporate circles: It claims that best business practices, including what’s best for consumers, are best decided by business decision-makers. But that has been proven false numerous deadly times with the biggest of businesses, including Boeing.
The first 737 Max crash was Lion Air Flight 610 [October 29, 2018], and the second was Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 [March 10, 2019], together horrifically killing all 346 people onboard.
The FAA basically rubber stamps the giant Boeing corporation’s new planes, as it did with the flawed 737 Max product, and who-knows-what before and after it.
Canada’s air-safety regulator is just as bad: Following the two catastrophic crashes, Transport Canada deliberately waited for the FAA’s relatively-slow decision to ground the 737 Max planes flown by American carriers before Transport Canada finally acted here.
The 737 Max atrocity remains most concerning, especially since the disasters were quite preventable but happened essentially due to Boeing corporate profit maximization.
I can see corporate officers shrugging their shoulders and defensively saying their job is to protect shareholders’ bottom-line interests. And the shareholders also shrug their shoulders while defensively stating they just collect the dividends and that the big bosses are the ones to make the moral and ethical decisions.
It really does seem there’s no human(e) or moral accountability when big profit is involved; nor can there be a sufficiently guilty conscience if the malpractice is continued, business as usual. ‘We are a capitalist nation, after all,’ the self-justification may go.
Still, there must be a point at which corporate greed thus practice will end up hurting big business’s own monetary interests. Or is the unlimited-profit objective/nature somehow irresistible? It brings to mind the allegorical fox stung by the instinct-abiding scorpion while ferrying it across the river, leaving both to drown.
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