Another great article on this subject: https://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/failed-certification-faa-missed-safety-issues-in-the-737-max-syste

Another great article on this subject: https://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/failed-certification-faa-missed-safety-issues-in-the-737-max-system-implicated-in-the-lion-air-crash/ https://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/faile... Notable points: - FAA delegated System Safety Analysis for MCAS and many other certification steps to Boeing engineers (what can go wrong with corporations policing themselves?) - Political pressures on FAA resulted in signing off on some certification steps before they were completed - Actual limit of MCAS’s command was not known to FAA, 737 MAX operators and pilots - MCAS failure was miss-classified as a “hazardous failure” instead of “catastrophic failure”, which would require redesign - MCAS was not even mentioned in flight manuals