Just a few days, at the top of HN, was this post[0]: "FAA safety engineer goes public to slam agency’s oversight of Boeing’s 737 Max". It links to a Seattle Ti

Just a few days, at the top of HN, was this post[0]: "FAA safety engineer goes public to slam agency’s oversight of Boeing’s 737 Max". It links to a Seattle Times article [1] that outlines (from the inside) systemic failures in how the FAA attempts to implement it's own mandate. That article would lead one to believe that it is in fact difficult to be _overly_ critical of the FAA. It has a stranglehold on innovation in the industry, and... well, just because you grew up with it (presumably) doesn't mean it's not the laughingstock of international aviation-oriented industries. The FAA is a trashfire. Persons who grew up in the USA don't have a benchmark on what it would look like for an agency that did it's job well. [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26376549 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26376549 [1]: https://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/faa-safety-engineer-goes-public-to-slam-the-agencys-oversight-of-boeings-737-max/ https://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/faa-s...