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You have more confidence in the plane than the people who designed and built it. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/09/business/boeing-737-messages.html https://w

• tridentlead 6y ago
  While Boeing totally screwed the pooch on this one, and I won't be choosing to fly on one if I can, the public having more confidence in a system than its creators/domain experts isn't exactly uncommon. Would you trust your medical record privacy to Windows XP running AVG?
• stevehawk 6y ago
  To my knowledge, we don't actually know that. None of the emails I've seen refer to anyone's title or name. For all I know it's a janitor who heard rumors around a water cooler.
  • dharmab 6y ago
    That's a ridiculous statement. The "Would you put your family on a MAX simulator trained aircraft?" quote comes from page 103 of this PDF [1] and is in the context of a technical discussion of the aircraft's design by people who clearly understand the internals. [1] https://int.nyt.com/data/documenthelper/6653-internal-boeing-communications/606e3fda752a935bc0df/optimized/full.pdf#page=84 https://int.nyt.com/data/documenthelper/6653-internal-boeing...