Boeing's 737 Max software outsourced to lower-paid engineers

Re:Boeing's 737 Max software outsourced to lower-paid engineers by salex89 on Friday June 28, 2019 @06:34PM (#20309343)

You are correct, however... I can't imagine a single engineer with any kind of proper education (formal or not) implementing any piece of software or hardware without thinking:"One sensor? Really? What's the failure rate on this thing". That might have been enough to stop the chan of events.

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Re:Boeing's 737 Max software outsourced to lower-paid engineers by CydeWeys on Friday June 28, 2019 @08:10PM (#20309906)

The engineers may not have realized they were relying on one sensor, or they might be the $9/hour variety with no avionics experience who don't know any better.

The main problem was higher up. The overall design was bad, and Boeing didn't seem to have a handle on it.

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Re:Boeing's 737 Max software outsourced to lower-paid engineers by anticensor on Saturday June 29, 2019 @10:44AM (#20312859)

Or they have a "obey all orders even when it is blatantly criminal" clause.

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Re:Boeing's 737 Max software outsourced to lower-paid engineers by mikeash on Friday June 28, 2019 @08:27PM (#20309991)

I suspect they were told that runaway trim wouldn’t be a serious problem, and they believed it since they wouldn’t have the expertise to analyze the whole thing from first principles.

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Re:Boeing's 737 Max software outsourced to lower-paid engineers by kbad1000 on Friday June 28, 2019 @07:52PM (#20309818)

Or may be they pointed it out but got reply "just work as said, you're just $9 engineer"? Or they were never told about the exact purpose?

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Re:Boeing's 737 Max software outsourced to lower-paid engineers by numpad0 on Friday June 28, 2019 @07:15PM (#20309603)

You get $9 for hypothetical blood splattered on your hand or you get worse than nothing for nothing

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