{"id":302322,"date":"2019-03-13T15:15:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-13T19:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=302322"},"modified":"2019-03-14T16:39:58","modified_gmt":"2019-03-14T20:39:58","slug":"trump-grounds-the-boeing-737-max-8-and-max-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2019\/03\/13\/trump-grounds-the-boeing-737-max-8-and-max-9\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Grounds the Boeing 737 Max 8 and Max 9"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: So I get an email during the break. “Are you gonna talk about the Boeing jet? It\u2019s so silly. It\u2019s so stupid.” So I looked up and I see that Trump has just announced the grounding of all 737 Max 8s and Max 9s and said, \u201cWell, no need to talk about it now.\u201d But I think this is silly.<\/p>\n

\"\"But, folks, this is what our culture is today. This is exactly — and it\u2019s not just us. It\u2019s not just the United States. I mean, the United Kingdom, the Brits, who can\u2019t even get Brexit right because they don\u2019t want to, the Brits have denied — they won\u2019t even allow the 737 Max 8 to fly over the country because they\u2019re afraid of \u2019em falling out of — do you know how many of these airplanes are flying every day? Taking off, landing, delivering people safely.<\/p>\n

You know, there\u2019s a website, flightaware.com<\/a> or you can also flightradar24.com<\/a>. FlightAware is pretty cool, you can search for any aircraft if you know the tail number, if you know the flight number, or if you know the model number, you can search and find every 737 Max 8 in the air at one time. It\u2019s all represented by little aircraft icons on a map of the world, and you can click on each one, find out what flight it is, what airline\u2019s running it, what cargo outfit\u2019s running it if that\u2019s the case. Pretty cool.<\/p>\n

But Trump made a point that the 737 Max 8 and 737 Max 9 that are currently flying, when they get to their destinations, they are grounded. Do you know how many of these things are flying safely multiple times a day, multiple times a week since they have been introduced? So Lion Air in Thailand had an accident and Ethiopian Air \u2013 Lion Air has a spotty track record. Ethiopian Air is pretty good.<\/p>\n

What I understand here is that there is a — and you need to grant me some latitude on this because I\u2019m not telling you with ontological certitude what the problem is. Best I can understand is that every-modern-day airplane is basically a computer, and the departure routes, particularly at major airports, it\u2019s very clogged, it\u2019s very crowded, and you program the departure route in the computer.<\/p>\n

The pilots are not flying the airplane. They take off, they roll, and the computer programming takes over what altitude\u2019s assigned, rate of assent, rate of climb, until you get out of departure control, until you get to what\u2019s called the center, which a bunch of air traffic control locations all over the country monitor flights at cruise level altitude. Then you come into arrival control and — at any rate, apparently what\u2019s happening is, or what did happen at least they think on the Ethiopian flight, is the computer thought that the aircraft was in a stall.<\/p>\n

\"\"Now, a stall is when there\u2019s not enough power and you\u2019re climbing. And the nose drops and basically you lose lift. You don\u2019t have enough speed to remain airborne, so gravity takes over, sucks the plane back down toward the ground. The nose dips. The way out of that is power. The way out of a stall is power. You gun it to give yourself enough power to recreate the aerodynamics over the wing to create lift, you bring the nose back up, and you get out of the stall. It\u2019s part of pilot training.<\/p>\n

Well, if they were unable to disconnect the software program that thought the plane was in a stall, what I think happened for Ethiopia, they were unable to disconnect the program, the computer program, and so the plane thinks they\u2019re in a stall, they\u2019re heading straight down, they can\u2019t get control of the airplane. This is a software glitch. I don\u2019t think it had anything to do with the mechanical parts of the airplane. It\u2019s a software glitch that they can fix and remedy and issue this update, you know, fleet-wide. Which is what they\u2019re gonna end up doing.<\/p>\n

But now with all of them grounded, this is gonna involve a bunch of more extensive testing, which is not bad, don\u2019t misunderstand, but I think this degree of panic, I don\u2019t know what it is. Fear. The percentages, if you\u2019re on a 737 Max 8, you are still statistically safer than any other way you could travel from point A to point B, even now, with \u2013 (interruption) well, they are gonna. I think they originally said the software fix will happen in April. That\u2019s not soon enough. I will grant you fixing the software by April is not soon enough. But I don\u2019t know that the problem exists fleet-wide, either.<\/p>\n

The reason we think we know this much is because some pilots have, I think, experienced this or some form of it to be able to report it. Anyway, they\u2019re all grounded now, so it doesn\u2019t matter what anybody thinks. 737 Max 8, Max 9 grounded. Whenever they get to where they\u2019re going, that\u2019s it. And it will be awhile.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: One thing, folks, about the 737 Max 8. Here is… One of the things that is causing problems here is 737. It is not a Boeing 737. They\u2019re calling it that, but it\u2019s a different airplane. It has much larger engines, and because of the expansion this airplane has got a different center of gravity. But Boeing sold it as nothing more than a modernized, upgraded 737 which did not require any specific additional training!<\/p>\n

If they would have called this thing the 739 or the 738, then… (sigh) It\u2019s too late for that. But it\u2019s just like the Boeing business jet, which is the private aircraft version of the 737. It\u2019s not a 737, either. It has the same look. But the 737 Max 8 and Max 9\u2019s a much bigger airplane than a 737, and it does have entirely different aerodynamics from a standpoint of pilot control, and they tried to skate on the lack of… It was sales technique. “Hey, there are 5,000 of these planes on order because it\u2019s considered to be just an upgrade of what\u2019s already in the sky, no additional training necessary! Everybody\u2019s already got it down pat,” and that may not be true.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

RUSH: They're all grounded now, so it doesn't matter what anybody thinks. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":302335,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[12,1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\nTrump Grounds the Boeing 737 Max 8 and Max 9 - The Rush Limbaugh Show<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2019\/03\/13\/trump-grounds-the-boeing-737-max-8-and-max-9\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Trump Grounds the Boeing 737 Max 8 and Max 9 - The Rush Limbaugh Show\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"RUSH: They're all grounded now, so it doesn't matter what anybody thinks.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/APP-031319-737-Max-8.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"George Prayias\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"5 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/\",\"name\":\"The Rush Limbaugh Show\",\"description\":\"Excellence In Broadcasting\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2019\/03\/13\/trump-grounds-the-boeing-737-max-8-and-max-9\/#primaryimage\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/APP-031319-737-Max-8.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/APP-031319-737-Max-8.jpg\",\"width\":640,\"height\":360},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2019\/03\/13\/trump-grounds-the-boeing-737-max-8-and-max-9\/#webpage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2019\/03\/13\/trump-grounds-the-boeing-737-max-8-and-max-9\/\",\"name\":\"Trump Grounds the Boeing 737 Max 8 and Max 9 - The Rush Limbaugh Show\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2019\/03\/13\/trump-grounds-the-boeing-737-max-8-and-max-9\/#primaryimage\"},\"datePublished\":\"2019-03-13T19:15:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2019-03-14T20:39:58+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/#\/schema\/person\/a2bc43fbe4b4e1ff4d1f092c6086a349\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2019\/03\/13\/trump-grounds-the-boeing-737-max-8-and-max-9\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2019\/03\/13\/trump-grounds-the-boeing-737-max-8-and-max-9\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2019\/03\/13\/trump-grounds-the-boeing-737-max-8-and-max-9\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Trump Grounds the Boeing 737 Max 8 and Max 9\"}]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/#\/schema\/person\/a2bc43fbe4b4e1ff4d1f092c6086a349\",\"name\":\"George Prayias\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/#personlogo\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/a43c262983f0228d5f474ce08e691cf9?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/a43c262983f0228d5f474ce08e691cf9?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"George Prayias\"},\"url\":\"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/author\/georgeeibnet-com\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Trump Grounds the Boeing 737 Max 8 and Max 9 - The Rush Limbaugh Show","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2019\/03\/13\/trump-grounds-the-boeing-737-max-8-and-max-9\/","twitter_card":"summary","twitter_title":"Trump Grounds the Boeing 737 Max 8 and Max 9 - The Rush Limbaugh Show","twitter_description":"RUSH: They're all grounded now, so it doesn't matter what anybody thinks.","twitter_image":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/APP-031319-737-Max-8.jpg","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"George Prayias","Est. reading time":"5 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/#website","url":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/","name":"The Rush Limbaugh Show","description":"Excellence In Broadcasting","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2019\/03\/13\/trump-grounds-the-boeing-737-max-8-and-max-9\/#primaryimage","inLanguage":"en-US","url":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/APP-031319-737-Max-8.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/APP-031319-737-Max-8.jpg","width":640,"height":360},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2019\/03\/13\/trump-grounds-the-boeing-737-max-8-and-max-9\/#webpage","url":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2019\/03\/13\/trump-grounds-the-boeing-737-max-8-and-max-9\/","name":"Trump Grounds the Boeing 737 Max 8 and Max 9 - The Rush Limbaugh Show","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2019\/03\/13\/trump-grounds-the-boeing-737-max-8-and-max-9\/#primaryimage"},"datePublished":"2019-03-13T19:15:00+00:00","dateModified":"2019-03-14T20:39:58+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/#\/schema\/person\/a2bc43fbe4b4e1ff4d1f092c6086a349"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2019\/03\/13\/trump-grounds-the-boeing-737-max-8-and-max-9\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2019\/03\/13\/trump-grounds-the-boeing-737-max-8-and-max-9\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2019\/03\/13\/trump-grounds-the-boeing-737-max-8-and-max-9\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Trump Grounds the Boeing 737 Max 8 and Max 9"}]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/#\/schema\/person\/a2bc43fbe4b4e1ff4d1f092c6086a349","name":"George Prayias","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/#personlogo","inLanguage":"en-US","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/a43c262983f0228d5f474ce08e691cf9?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/a43c262983f0228d5f474ce08e691cf9?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"George Prayias"},"url":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/author\/georgeeibnet-com\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302322"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302322"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":302384,"href":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302322\/revisions\/302384"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/302335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}