Trump denounces the technology of the aircraft after the Boeing crash: "I do not want Albert Einstein to be my pilot"

President Donald Trump complained on Tuesday that modern aircraft are becoming more and more complicated for pilots, as countries around the world destroy the Boeing 737 Max 8 after a fatal accident in Ethiopia.

"The planes are becoming far too complex to fly in. The pilots are no longer needed, but the computer scientists at MIT, I see it all the time in many products, always looking for a useless step, when often old and simpler is much better, "Trump wrote on Twitter.

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He continued: "Decisions made at split-second are … necessary, and complexity creates a danger.All this for a huge cost, but very unprofitable.I do not know about you, but I do not want that Albert Einstein is my I want great aviation professionals authorized to take control of an aircraft easily and quickly! "

The tweet comes shortly after the governments of China, the United Kingdom, Australia, Indonesia and other countries have immobilized the 737 Max 8 in their airspace in response to the Crash of an Ethiopian Airlines flight last weekend.

Another 737 Max 8 crashed in Indonesia in October, raising concerns about the safety of the aircraft. The 737 family is one of Boeing's most popular aircraft with a solid safety record, but the Max 8 has raised concerns about the ability to prevent pilots from accumulating too powerful automated functions.

Several US carriers assured that the aircraft was safe and continued to use it several hundred times a day without incident. But that did not stop lawmakers like Sens. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) And Mitt Romney (R-Utah) call to a grounding.

"For the sake of caution for the flying public, the @FAANews should fail the 737 MAX 8 until we look for the causes of the recent crashes and ensure the airworthiness of the aircraft," tweeted Romney on Tuesday.

Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Member of the Chair, shared the same sentiment. "Although we did not know the causes of these accidents, serious questions were raised as to whether these aircraft were put into service without additional pilot training in order to save money," he said. said Warren in a statement.

Trump has a habit of giving his opinion on the aviation sector – although his experience is largely limited to the launch of an airline that failed in 1989. While baptizing Trump Shuttle Trump has outraged corporate executives by claiming that Pan Am had a poor and careless safety record – a lower-ranking belt move in the airline industry, reported the Boston Globe.

Trump also said early last year that his administration had helped improve aviation safety.

"Since I've been in the job, I've been very strict about commercial aviation," Trump tweeted in January 2018. "Good news – it's just been reported that it's There were no deaths in 2017, the safest and most record year ever!

The tweet referred to information that there would have been no jet fatalities in 2017, but did not mention deaths related to cargo and non-jet aircraft. He also ignored the fact that the United States had spent years without a single passenger having died since 2009.