Management of crisis: The Ethiopian airline’s flight 302 crash

Management of crisis:

The Ethiopian airline‘s flight 302 crash

Introduction

The Boeing 737 MAX 8 craft that usually operated international bases scheduled to take passengers flight from Addis Ababa to Nairobi Kenya on 10 March 2019 went on missing after 6 minutes and crushed at the bishoftu town. It was reported from the Ethiopian airlines that consists of 30 nationalities were in the airplane, in which they were from 30 different countries. The aircraft had a total of 157 passengers, and none of them came alive after the incident.

The suitable theories that I will comply with our standard accident theory and the Swiss cheese model. Swiss cheese model talks about a continuous mistake that an organization makes from a single person that will facilitate the whole incident and for this case is applicable. The existing failure of one engine of the plane that pilots were aware before the aircraft was assigned to take flight. The second theory is the standard accident theory, that defined as accidents involving an anticipated interaction of multiple failures in systems with high-risk technologies.

Pre-conditions

The pilots in charge of the Boeing 737 MAX8 reported about the failure of one of the engines of the plane. The executive present in the aircraft recorded a voice and sent to the aircraft controller that they had a flight controlling problems. They needed to land back to Bole airport, where they take off. There was a miscommunication between the flight controllers at the airport, and he could not interpret the message and decided to send it to Europe and get feedback after some hours. The chief executive also was not aware of the flight communication problems, and the flight controller could not interpret the message sent by the pilots, thereby seek help from Europe in which delays. Failure to supervise the airplane by the airport technical expertise that shows that the previous flight that 737 MAX 8 has reported before assigned another trip. There was a failure of some of the engines that the airplane tends to be hard to control.

Before the incident of Boeing M.A.X. 8 that happened at Bishoftu town where it crashed, there was a similar incident that occurred before in Indonesia that the same type of airplane crashed that causes a massive loss of lives. The company that manufactured the planes did not review the entire products if the materials that they were using. They were required to assess their efficiency as their products occurred in accidents. Thus could able them to identify whether they used non-standard materials to assemble the airplanes.

The investigations did not research further to notify whether the mistake resulted from the pilots or the manufactures. There was a total reluctance on both of the industry that manufactures and the organization were doing.

The organization mistakes that were not expertise on the air flight control, and they were unknowledgeable on the aircraft airplane. The mediocrity exposes the organization on employing non-expertise who is not aware of the aircraft’s knowledge. The technical expertise also could not asses the planes after the organization bought them. The mechanical team of the organization was not well oriented on the new airplanes, and they could not reorganize the problem resulted from the previous flight. The I.T. installed was complicated; the German investigators became hard for them to interpret and forced them to send to Europe rather than American airlines. The executive did not make any follow-ups on the working of the airplanes.

Trigger

The crash happened at 08:44 local time, and this was after 6 minutes when the one-month-old Boeing M.A.X. 8 planes took off. An intense fire witnessed as the plane was hitting the ground. The blast that accompanied by fire after a few minutes was seen by the people nearby of the bostifu town of Ethiopia. The Ethiopian airline’s passenger plane had a total of 157 passengers that crashed and killed everyone. After the pilots realized that something wrong happened, they informed the aircraft controller through data recording. But as they were not receiving a response, they decided to tell the passengers to get ready to use any means to survive. There was little equipment for the passengers to apply to land before it could hit the ground. The staff decided to continue to control through some engines that failed. The passengers were not oriented to use the parachutes. Therefore, the alternative way to escape the epic was challenging to undertake.

It started to burn from the airline, as the engines failed. The failure of the engines triggered the explosion of fire to one driver. The light further observed and activated more as it hit the ground. The witnesses from the bochtif village could not offer any help since they did not have the knowledge to handle when planes were burning. The locals observed the burning of innocent bodies.

Crisis

The accident occurred in Bishoftu village on 10 March of 2019. The crash of the Ethiopian Boeing co 737 MAX 8 airplane was due to the failure of the engine of the plane. The pilots noticed after they took off from the bola international airport in Ethiopia heading Nairobi Kenya. The cockpit’s recorded voice after realizing the fault then sent to the main servers. Still, the one responsible could not interpret the data, therefore, leading to miscommunication that facilitates the crashing of the plane. The pilots followed the procedures well but left the thrush to be high. They turned the motor that leads to driving M.C.A.s back on. That it was after switching it off. The design of the plane, especially the I.T., was complicated for the expertise to handle. The Federation Aviation Administration towards its the irresponsibility for inspecting the aircraft before they get to work. The board accepted the introduction of the new Boeing co planes from the company without a critical looking. It was about 8:38 where the C.F.M. international leap off power, the Boeing co 737 max 8 aircraft forwarded. The flight holds about 160,000-pound mass, which gained speed as their thrust engines steadily. It elevated for about 2000ft that was higher than the Denver international that took bit longer for the plane to begin to accelerate. Passengers from their left hand started to see the peak of the Entoto Mountains. The captain pulls back to control the yoke, plane nose lifts in the air. Some seconds later, the plane took the direction to Nairobi Kenya, where it was between 8:38 and 8:44 am where something goes wrong with the sensor of the plain on its left to produce abnormal noise. The noise could as a result of it was hit by a bird or anything else, the sensor known as the angle of vane started to fuselage and  the flow of air into it. If this nose was that large, the plane was at verge of a dangerous aerodynamic stall which could led to lose of its wing dramatically. As a safety, as the designers of Boeing 737 max plane had equipped the aircraft with an M.C.A.s that automatically pushed the nose down, when the angle of attack was that large. One minute into the flight and the captain asks the first officer to raise the flaps to provide extra lift at low speeds and finally does so. As the flaps slide back of the plane under the wing, the aircraft was at the state of M.C.A.s to design.

At 8:43-45, the Ethiopian airline’s Flight 302 started to accelerate at about 700 miles per hour that led to killing everyone who was at the plane, which instantly creates a creator of 120  long and 90 full driven 30 ft deep.

Post-crisis

After the Boeing co 737 max 8 aircraft plane crushed, the 737 MAX was grounded worldwide. Investigators hired to find out what happened since there was little information about fate. The F.A.A. banned the specific type of planes in Canada, Europe, and America after they realized the knowledge used to design the aircraft was complex. The designed flaws were also dangerous after the federation investigated and came to find that it was complicated. Ethiopia declared the following Monday as their day to mourn the victims of the accident. Most passengers worldwide started to avoid flight tickets as they were afraid of the flight. As the design company also apologizes to the two fatal accidents, it caused across the globe. Evidence including black box data that retrieved from the two crashes was analyzed and found that the plane avoids stalls appear to have malfunctioning that contributed to the accidents.

The multi-agency task force known as joint technical Review concluded that Boeing had failed to explain the functioning of M.C.A.s, and the Federal Aviation Administration could not effectively analyze. • New problems with Max keep cropping up as Boeing works on a fix, and the timeline for the return of the Max had pushed back several times.

• Boeing’s woes aren’t limited to the Max. It is also facing scrutiny over the production of the 787 Dream liners in North Charleston, S.C. After a New York Times investigation into conditions in the factory, the executive in charge of the plant left Boeing, the F.A.A. stepped up its oversight there, and the Justice Department expanded its investigation to include the factory.

The financial implications of the crashes and groundings have been undergoing to Boeing. The company has consumed at least a $7.3 billion hit accompanied by the continued grounding of the airplanes, in connection to the $100 million it reserved for the communities and families of victims.

• It has announced three losses following the second crash. Revenues and earnings are likely to keep dropping, and the costs connected with the crashes could keep growing.
• Boeing scored a significant win with an order for 200 Max jets from the original company of British Airways in June. But other airlines have recommended they may reconsider their orders for the Max, and a Saudi airline lately rescinded its effort to buy 50 Max jets, placing an order with Airbus instead.
• Carriers like Southwest Airlines and American Airlines have canceled thousands of flights, and some are demanding compensation from Boeing while their Maxes have been unable to fly.

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Summary

The 737 Boeing company was initially established and has been restoring many times over the decades, becoming the most familiar commercial aircraft of all time.

• Boeing was considering constructing all-new airplanes in 2011. But pressurized from its chief contesting, Airbus, Boeing decided to choose to update the 737 instead. That decision proved to be crucial.
• Boeing developed the Max — a single-aisle aircraft that seats about 200 passengers — to fly farther and more precisely than before 737s. Doing that, it equipped the Max with massive engines that changed the plane’s aerodynamics and made it more probably to stall in some situations.

Most accidents result from a series of mistakes from the designers to those who regulate airline services. The fatal occurred in Ethiopia was likely of the F.A.A. failure to investigate the efficiency, and the devices cooperated during designing. Measures have taken towards compensation of the victims by the Boeing Company.

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