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One thing that appears concerning in the series of articles being written about the 737 Max incidents is that they suggest a culture at Boeing of speed/cost ove
by rtempaccount1 7y ago
One thing that appears concerning in the series of articles being written about the 737 Max incidents is that they suggest a culture at Boeing of speed/cost over safety.
Now we can assume that the Max won't re-enter service until this issue is completely solved (I'm sure regulators will be extra-scrupulous here and customers will want cast iron re-assurance).
However, is anyone going over all the other safety decisions and changes made to other Boeing models over the period of the Max development?
It seems unlikely that this was an isolated incident of rushing things for commercial benefit...
- djsumdog 7y agoI'm actually wondering if the 737 MAX will make it back into service. Every single one of these planes will need to be flow back to one of their maintenance centers (like the one south of Seattle) and undergo retrofits. Hopefully it will result in Bowing being required to make this a new plane and a lot of pilot re-certification. If it does return to the market, I wonder if they'll be forced to rebrand it. It's obviously not a 737.
- alexis_fr 7y agoBugs tend to appear in Poisson law of probability: 2 big bugs immediately, 2 others a few weeks later, but that means there are hundreds of them to discover over a period of 5 years (until the D-check). So, in all probability, we don’t even know the list of fatal flaws even yet!
- WrtCdEvrydy 7y agoIt's a 737 with lower engines. The flaw is using software to fix a hardware issue.