Re:Boeing engineer breaks silence on MAX 737
by jonas21 on Friday July 05, 2019 @05:59PM
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Also, the headline "Boeing engineer breaks silence on MAX 737" is a little bit misleading -- he left Boeing in 2000, long before development on the 737 MAX started and has been working for the union since then.
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That means this problem has been going on for over 20 years, and probably longer. Which is kind of scary.
The problem has been going since Douglas bought Boeing with Boeing money. Douglas shifted in the 80s to a state monopoly culture, where politics is more important than engineering and safety (see DC-10), a bit like lockeed martin. Boeing was still a company "a la" Dyson, led by engineers before the acquisition (in 97). I think the first Boeing non-engineer CEO was hired in 2004.