The captain of a doomed Ethiopian Airlines flight did not practise on a new simulator for the Boeing 737 Max 8 before he died in a crash with 156 others, a pilot colleague said. "Boeing did not send manuals on MCAS," the Ethiopian Airlines pilot told Reuters in a hotel lobby. The 737 Max simulator was not designed to replicate the MCAS system problems, it added. The operators didn't realize the magnitude of the differences," he told Reuters in a communication over the Ethiopian pilot's remarks. The world's largest 737 operator, Southwest Airlines, will not have its first Max simulator ready for use until October, its pilot union said Wednesday.

Source: CBC News March 21, 2019 12:52 UTC