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Re:The McDonnell Douglas-Boeing merger led to the 737 Max cr... by azernik on Monday January 06, 2020 @04:23PM (#21973490)
The regulations here are generally sane - the retraining requirement for a new plane is an unavoidable necessity.

Boeing tried to game the regulations, and because of cuts the regulator didn't have the manpower to catch them.

Classic "starve the beast" - cut funding to government so it fucks up, then claim government is incompetent and so should be smaller.

Re:The McDonnell Douglas-Boeing merger led to the 737 Max cr... by WorldMaker on Monday January 06, 2020 @07:36PM (#21975339)
Plus, studies by even Boeing themselves after the fact showed that retraining caught the problem, further cementing that retraining is a good thing. Had more pilots retrained specifically for the 737 MAX (rather than on older 737 simulators or test flight 737 vehicles that airlines had lying around from earlier models), a larger alarm would have been rang before problems were experienced in the wild at the worst possible time (when people's lives are endangered).