Re:Ethiopian Airlines 737 MAX Investigation Preliminary Report
by chopin on Friday April 05, 2019 @03:34AM
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As the Seattle Times reported, the MCAS system was mis-characterized by Boeing. Rules don't help if you don't go by them.
This postmortem must include "runaway corporate greed" absolutely. Not sure what can be done about it as the FAA is not trustworthy anymore.
The ones I have read do not feature three-word explanations, but rather say things like "the chain of events that led to the accident could have been stopped at any of these single points: <seven items> and would also have been stopped if both a&b had been done, or if both c&d, or both c&e" and then discuss how each of the many might be changed. They don't say "five of the links in the event chain were at a profit-hungry corporation, whose CEO should be thrown in gaol, then they'll know to do that differently in the future".
"Runaway corporate greed" is fine reason for a quick and angry post on a social network, but aviation postmortems are a different kind of beast, heavy on analysis and prevention, light on anger.