Boeing 737 MAX Incident a By-Product of Its Financial Mindset

Posted by ilamont on Thursday January 11, 2024 @11:31AM
from the prospect.org dept.

https://prospect.org/infrastructure/transportation/2024-01-09-boeing-737-max-financial-mindset/

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Re:Boeing 737 MAX Incident a By-Product of Its Financial Min... by two_handfuls on Thursday January 11, 2024 @02:48PM (#38957870)

> employees (…) warned the company about safety issues but were instructed to falsify documents instead

Wow!

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Re:Boeing 737 MAX Incident a By-Product of Its Financial Min... by RecycledEle on Thursday January 11, 2024 @04:40PM (#38959544)

Everything is the bean counters' fault.

--An Engineer

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Re:Boeing 737 MAX Incident a By-Product of Its Financial Min... by mechatrocity on Friday January 12, 2024 @01:57AM (#38964905)

Working at an aerospace tier 1 contactor, I saw the Airbus NEO series announced and begin, then Boeing MAX begin in reaction, and fully "complete" to try and get to market first before NEO... "Agile Hardware Development" is not a thing for a reason

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