Re:Boeing's Managerial Revolution Created the 737 Max Disaster
by detaro on Saturday September 21, 2019 @07:19PM
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It's an incentive to make the differences between the planes seem as minimal as possible and avoid pilots being properly informed about all the details of the system, leading to pilots not knowing why the plane does what it does and how to fix it when it goes wrong?
>"Southwest always had a lot to say about projected modifications to the 737, and Kelleher’s team mostly wanted as few technical modifications as possible. With the MAX, they upped the ante: According to Rick Ludtke, a former Boeing employee, Boeing agreed to rebate Southwest $1 million for every MAX it bought, if the FAA required level-D simulator training for the carrier’s pilots"
This seems like an important part of the story yet I'm not understanding if it's inclusion is meant to have significance to the tragedies of the 737. Could someone explain how of if this is germane to the crashes?