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>> “They wanted to A, save money and B, to minimize the certification and flight-test costs" This seems to be the root cause of the problem. Competition is not
by spacedog 8y ago
>> “They wanted to A, save money and B, to minimize the certification and flight-test costs"
This seems to be the root cause of the problem. Competition is not always good.
- reacweb 8y agoI think Boeing was in a wrong mindset: certification was seen as a burden instead of being seen as an help to build a better aircraft. But maybe it was not only the fault of Boeing. The certification process of FAA is perhaps not friendly enough toward big air-frame changes (like putting the wings slightly higher to make room for the bigger reactor). Here, the certification process has not identified that a failure of one AOA sensor was able to cause a difficult to avoid crash. Maybe we should allow the use of less reliable source of data (like GPS, ...) each time a sensor has a problem.