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> When congressional investigators started digging into what caused the crashes, they found a range of problems at Boeing — both with the design of the Max 8's
by everybodyknows 3y ago
> When congressional investigators started digging into what caused the crashes, they found a range of problems at Boeing — both with the design of the Max 8's flight control systems, and with pilot training — and they found insufficient oversight by the FAA.
And at that layer of the onion the investigation stops, because the underneath is Congress' underfunding of the FAA, forcing the latter to resort to the sham of "self-inspection" by Boeing.
Congress does not investigate itself; legislators are never to blame. NPR, as usual, has no clue.
- everybodyknows 3y agoOr, or, NPR management knows exactly what it's doing, and knows well not to bite the hand that feeds. The hand that feeds is extended by, of course, Congress!
- janice1999 3y agoInspectors could have spotted quality issues but I'm not convinced inspections would have found the MCAS issue. Boeing hid the feature, literally renaming it to sound less important, under existing trim control. Boeing emails showed management placed huge pressure internally to ensure no additional pilot training would be mandated. If the company is so willing to hide, obfuscate and outright lie, would external inspectors have helped?
- lopsotronic 3y agoSoftware FAA DERs (boeing staff who "report" to FAA) were a factor in the MCAS-related crashes. There's vanishing few SW DERs these days.