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Re:Former Boeing 737 Max Chief Technical Pilot Indicted for ... by rightbyte on Friday October 15, 2021 @05:24AM (#28875859)
I think the worlds greatest agency couldn't evaluate a so complex system as the Max. They should just have said no.

I believe it is foremost a complexity issue, and the MCAS(?) failure is just one of the many things that could go wrong, that actually did. Boing probably have more issues with the plane that is waiting to surface given their culture ...

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Re:Former Boeing 737 Max Chief Technical Pilot Indicted for ... by TheOtherHobbes on Friday October 15, 2021 @05:49AM (#28876009)
Saying "no" would have been an evaluation.

It's a management function. If someone comes to you and says "We want to rewrite everything so it runs on a Raspberry PI powered by a hamster wheel" you don't need to ask about the engineering spec of the hamster wheel.

The Max MCAS was only marginally more plausible in overview. Details were never going to rescue it.

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