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The thing with the two MCAS accidents is that you don't have too few people to blame, but too many: - the airlines who wanted a more fuel-efficient plane that
by rob74 3y ago
The thing with the two MCAS accidents is that you don't have too few people to blame, but too many:
- the airlines who wanted a more fuel-efficient plane that should still have the same type certificate as the (at that time) 40+ year old Boeing 737
- Boeing management, who wanted to keep those airlines as customers
- Boeing engineering, who did what they did at the management's request
- the FAA, who failed to spot the issue
- the mechanics of the involved airlines, who dispatched the planes without working angle-of-attack sensors
- the airlines who ordered planes without the (optional) "angle-of-attack disagree" alert
- the pilots (just for the sake of completeness), who failed to notice the issue and either refuse to fly the plane or correct it in time to avoid the crash
Who do you want to single out here?