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Fascinating how many people had to actively shove this to the side so that it became potentially life threatening: - CFM designed an engine that, in certain em
by DrNosferatu 2y ago
Fascinating how many people had to actively shove this to the side so that it became potentially life threatening:
- CFM designed an engine that, in certain emergencies, dumps oil into the quite possible (actually traditional, if I understand correctly?) human-breathing stream of the aircraft, apparently, without the relevant human-breathing system shutdown mandate when said (or any) emergency system is triggered;
[truth be told, we never heard their complete story]
- Boeing integrating said new engines into their new 737MAX without appropriately checking for possible new emergency mode interactions with their life-support (in this case, breathing) systems.
- FAA dropped the ball upon accident investigation;
- FAA removed their employee that then picked up the ball;
- EASA swallowing what they were told by FAA without asking further questions;
Well...
I have worked in many no-harm potential software projects that employed more careful engineering than this.
All hardware projects I worked on employed more careful engineering than this.
Conclusion:
It becomes more and more difficult to falsify that Boeing, nowadays, simply abandoned engineering design reviews, and, relies solely on some blend of "agile" methods to design people-carrying airplanes.