\u00a0Professor invents Model to convert Hindi, English, Gujarati Text to Braille for visually impaired<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\nIt is unfortunate that this had to happen to Boeing. A century old, this company was known for its efficiency and panache and had garnered a huge amount of goodwill. Customers trusted it and new variants were quickly lapped up. The MAX itself was seen as a fuel-efficient variant of the ubiquitous 737 and some 5,000 orders were quickly placed for it by airlines all over the world. It spent a huge amount on public relations and its corporate communications arm was active in all the countries it had a presence in. In Delhi, this reporter was invited to a learning session on how a plane flew and it was a stimulating experience. Engineers from Boeing also interacted with the media and its senior heads of sales were on first-name basis with many aviation journalists.<\/p>\n
But the two deadly crashes saw Boeing\u2019s shares plummet like a plane out of control and a record quarterly loss of $2.9bn in the three months to June, in addition to cries for compensation from distraught families of the victims. Not to mention pilot groups baying for its blood for not informing them of the anti-stall software that was added without their knowledge, jeopardising theirs and passenger lives.<\/p>\n
What was more shocking was the news that Boeing had outsourced many of the crucial tasks of its planes. Some experts even said that its software developers were unfit to write airplane code. Design shortcuts were undertaken in an effort to save money in a sector where safety is of paramount importance. A new \u201cManeuvering Characteristics Augmentation System,\u201d or MCAS, finally did Boeing in. One expert even went on the say that the people who wrote the code for the original MCAS system were obviously terribly far out of their league and did not know it.<\/p>\n
It will take a gargantuan effort on the part of Boeing to now win back the trust it lost and persuade aviation regulators to allow the MAX to once again take to the skies. The DGCA will be one of them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
By Shobha John Boeing, the world\u2019s largest aircraft-maker, which is almost synonymous with America and its might, has never had it so bad. With the crash of two of its 737 MAX planes in October 2018 and March 2019 due to a malfunctioning software and their worldwide grounding, the blind trust that airlines and aviation […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":67810,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[79031],"tags":[2118,8184,68559],"yst_prominent_words":[68554,68542,17244,8183,79490,79489,14817,40387,4472,54168,44401,24804,79492,79494,23699,79491,33040,27909,79493,21645],"ppma_author":[140543],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/d2r2ijn7njrktv.cloudfront.net\/apnlive\/uploads\/2019\/09\/16155835\/grounded-737-max-planes.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"authors":[{"term_id":140543,"user_id":4,"is_guest":0,"slug":"apnnewsdesk","display_name":"APN Live","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/478eacb893eda88aa6ed8d99b005bf58?s=96&r=g"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67802"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67802\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67802"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=67802"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=67802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}