> But if the specifications for the software were designed by Boeing management, it wouldn't have mattered where the programmers were located that actually code

> But if the specifications for the software were designed by Boeing management, it wouldn't have mattered where the programmers were located that actually coded it. From the investigative reports I read, it wasn't the programmers that decided 1 Angle-of-Attack sensor instead of checking 2 redundant ones -- it was the aerospace engineers and managers above the programmers. The issues that I've most often seen in working with offshored programmers vs local engineers is that the former will happily code a spec that makes no sense, while the later will almost immediately raise concerns if they see something that doesn't make sense. Maybe it's a matter of education (formal engineering vs some bootcamp) or that an engineer's signature often carries legal weight. In that case, I wonder if there was an actual engineers who reviewed what the management has requested for the MCAS or did it go straight to the 9$/hr bodyshop?