While I agree that having your software development on the other side of the planet can increase the chance of bad communication, I think it's not the biggest i

While I agree that having your software development on the other side of the planet can increase the chance of bad communication, I think it's not the biggest issue involved here. The biggest issue seems to be, "we need a new plane but we don't want to admit it's a new plane, let's fake that it's the same old plane", and that was not a software issue.