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Greenlandic MP Pipaluk Lynge condemned Donald Trump Jr.'s visit as a staged effort to portray locals as supportive of U.S. annexation.

His team reportedly distributed MAGA hats to residents, barred journalists, and organized managed photo ops, including locals speaking with Donald Trump on speakerphone.

“We know how they treat the Inuit in Alaska,” Lynge hit back. “Make that great before trying to invade us.”

Lynge and Danish PM Mette Frederiksen reiterated Greenland’s rejection of U.S. takeover threats, while Greenlandic PM Múte Bourup Egede emphasized the island’s focus on sovereignty and independence.

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[–] DacoTaco 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Does the mcas still rely on one sensor on the front of the plane or have they learned and added one for good measure? Ye 737 max is safer now, yes. But fuck boeing for trying to cheap out and costing thousands of lives

[–] TheRealKuni 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

The MCAS wasn’t an issue of cheaping out, it was an evolution of a less-dangerous system that fell through the cracks and highlighted shortcomings with the FAA’s self-approval system. It’s a long story, but the short version is because the type of system it was wasn’t considered critical it was approved for being fed by only one source of data. And in its earlier iterations for military use it was far less powerful in terms of how much stabilizer trim it could apply. As it evolved it became much more potent, and also reset every time the pilots used their trim switches, leading to disaster. Mentour Pilot has done some really good videos about it, especially his analyses of the Lion Air crash and the Ethiopian Airlines crash.

Now it receives data from multiple sources and won’t activate if they disagree profoundly. It also can only ever activate once per flight now, which means even in the event of erroneous activation the pilots can easily trim it out.

[–] DacoTaco 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

It kinda was cheaping out. They wanted to release the plane asap, but without mcas they needed to recertify the whole plane which wouldve taken time and wouldve lost them a shit ton of sales to airbus. So they faked it with mcas.
Whatever you call it, the mcas system was a whole bunch of shit piled layers layers of shit. The videos are very interesting, ye.
Thank god the data comes from multiple sensors and and it can be ignored!