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They did prosecute someone, which looked to me like a case of throwing an underling out of the bus, but it looks like that person was acquitted by a jury: http

They did prosecute someone, which looked to me like a case of throwing an underling out of the bus, but it looks like that person was acquitted by a jury: https://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory/boeing-test-pilot-found-guilty-deceiving-faa-83635543 https://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory/boeing-test-pilot-... Former Boeing test pilot found not guilty of deceiving FAA A jury in Texas has found a former Boeing test pilot not guilty of deceiving federal regulators about a key flight-control system on the Boeing 737 Max jetliner (March 2022)

fffox 4y ago
exactly, that guy was just a fall guy. If a system / organization is designed such that the fate of something as critical as an aircraft depends on ONE test pilot, that system needs to be re-assessed. All those managers / senior engineers / decision makers should be fired / fined and the worst of them should be put in prison.
- throwaway81523 4y ago
  He was in charge of the testing program at some level. He wasn't purely a pilot.