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I've gone from admiring Boeing all my life to completely not trusting anything today's Boeing says after this scandal. It's very likely that they are overrun b
by atonse 8y ago
I've gone from admiring Boeing all my life to completely not trusting anything today's Boeing says after this scandal.
It's very likely that they are overrun by a bunch of MBA-ridden suits rather than engineers (not claiming all engineers are benevolent but that cultural shift always results in an erosion of quality), like most companies of its type. And no good decisions will be made.
I have always said (although without any supporting data), that the safest time to fly is probably after a plane crash because most airlines are probably double and triple checking their planes to be safe.
But that's not true of the 737-MAX. You can't fix what they've screwed up. Because the fundamental design change was borne out of greed, and not good engineering. I'll continue to avoid the 737-MAX like I'm sure many others will.
- Aloha 8y agothe 737max is not really any more unsafe than any other fly-by-wire aircraft - aerodynamically unstable aircraft are not really unusual, and this one isnt even really unstable in 99% of its flight envelope, just one specific place - and its not even unstable, it just handles differently than other 737's. I agree with you, Boeing should have done a clean sheet redesign of the aircraft for this segment, not patch up the 737 for another decade of production - but I cant really tell them the reasons they made this choice are bad - airlines like and want more 737's, a completely new type creates a bunch of extra costs on all parts - so a choice was made, and now Boeing will live with the consequences.
- hackandtrip 8y agoWe all will avoid the 373 MAX luckily, because it's blocked by every Airline right now.
- agumonkey 8y agoIt's crazy how anything in the universe grows and decays.. even when said thing is somehow sentient and knows about this