Pilots battled an automatic system that continually pushed a Boeing jetliner’s nose down due to a defective sensor until they lost power and crashed into Indonesia’s Java Sea. Boeing observed that the day before the flight, other crew had responded appropriately to the automated nose-down pitch and operated the jet manually (Report faults safety failures, 2018). The Indonesian safety commission’s investigation did not conclude how the pilots lost all plane control. Still, it reiterated previous suggestions that pilots be more familiar with emergency plans and mindful of past aircraft difficulties. The pilots appear to have responded by manually directing the nose higher, failing to realize what was occurring, and failing to follow the standard process for combating improper autopilot activation. The personnel of the tragic flight was allegedly not notified about past flying difficulties, and the Lion Air plane was not adequately fixed following those flights.
Regarding the airlines cutting costs on safety, it could be claimed that safety precautions raise expenses without boosting income. Pilot training, for instance, is costly, particularly simulator preparation, and is being cut due to rising mechanization, in which pilots increasingly operate the plane’s software rather than the aircraft itself (Robinson pilot safety course, 2022). Hence, when new safety concerns arise, airlines should cut their profit and, as a result, the wages of their employees. For this reason, I think companies in the industry might want to protect their workers. Moreover, the COVID-19 crisis has been especially harsh on the airlines. As a result, the multiple people working in the flight firms were jobless for a long time. Thus, the airlines try to compensate for the period of absence of pay by cutting costs on safety and providing wages to employees.
References
Report faults safety failures, defects in Lion Air crash. (2018). AP NEWS.
Robinson pilot safety course. (2022). Robinson Helicopter Company.