We should stop talking about this as an engineering defect that the FAA needs X number of months to review. The root cause is not an engineering defect, but a

We should stop talking about this as an engineering defect that the FAA needs X number of months to review. The root cause is not an engineering defect, but a set of organizational, cultural, and managerial defects. This is the root cause that leads inexorably to a variety of seemingly unrelated engineering defects. Perhaps regulators should hold off on approving new airplanes until Boeing can demonstrate that they have fixed the organizational, cultural, and managerial defects that are the root cause of their safety problems.