Re:FAA safety engineer goes public to slam agency’s oversigh...
by StopHammoTime on Tuesday March 09, 2021 @05:04AM
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You're also forgetting the fact that Boeing still maintain the current aircraft. What if they cut corners in some updated manufacturing design or material? What if a new update to an FMS introduces faulty design into how something or other works. Yes, you're totally right if planes rolled out of the factory and was never touched by Boeing again, but that's not necessarily how it works.
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Re:FAA safety engineer goes public to slam agency’s oversigh...
by dataflow on Tuesday March 09, 2021 @05:15AM
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I mean, if they were going to do that, why would they start doing that now? By most accounts I've read, their culture supposedly changed with the McDonnell-Douglas acquisition in 1997. They could've and would've already started doing so long ago before all this mess burnt their reputation, and we would've seen its effects on other planes' track records, yet I don't think we've seen anything to indicate this. And it seems to me like they have far less of an incentive to start engaging in these shenanigans now.