Re:Boom Supersonic (YC W16) XB-1 Fuselage Construction Underway
by sunstone on Thursday December 19, 2019 @07:28PM
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When you kick out the engineers and call in the Harvard MBA's it's a near certainty you'll start to lose altitude it's just a question of how fast the descent will be. In this case it was very fast indeed.
In the first year of flying their most important new airplane, they managed to kill 350 passengers. This is unprecedented in modern air travel, worse than all others combined (including DC-9, Tu-154, and A320). Boeing had information on MCAS's twitchiness in 2015, so why did they allow a second plane to crash? And now they've bungled the grounding, originally suggesting to airlines they might be flying again in May: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/01/business/boeing-737-softw...
You must admit, their ineptitude through this whole ordeal is just incomprehensible. I'm sure you're right, and Boeing probably better people in charge of their other divisions ... but, if so, then they need to put them on the MAX!