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As the 737 Max situation never should deserve its own thread on TMC, yet has been brought up here a number of times, I'll use this thread to chime in.
My mole in the FAA had, inter alia, the following to say. Of note: (1) his bailiwick does not include oversight of Boeing. (2) He is far more often critical of his employer than he is defensive of it.
1. Boeing did this portion of the build on-the-cheap
2. His opinion of FAA's decision not to ground is that that is the correct one. BTW: as we were talking, Trump's trumping of FAA came across the wires.
3. The scenario as being played out right now is an interesting convergence - or divergence - of engineering vs political. For him, the engineering aspects correctly point to keeping the planes flying. The political ones....well, you know the answer to that.
4. There is absolutely zero evidence of a software worm, etc., nefariously lurking as a mole. Wrong on all counts.
5. Zero action should be taken until the black boxes are examined - and this should be done immediately. For me, this is where the story begins to be interesting:
My mole in the FAA had, inter alia, the following to say. Of note: (1) his bailiwick does not include oversight of Boeing. (2) He is far more often critical of his employer than he is defensive of it.
1. Boeing did this portion of the build on-the-cheap
2. His opinion of FAA's decision not to ground is that that is the correct one. BTW: as we were talking, Trump's trumping of FAA came across the wires.
3. The scenario as being played out right now is an interesting convergence - or divergence - of engineering vs political. For him, the engineering aspects correctly point to keeping the planes flying. The political ones....well, you know the answer to that.
4. There is absolutely zero evidence of a software worm, etc., nefariously lurking as a mole. Wrong on all counts.
5. Zero action should be taken until the black boxes are examined - and this should be done immediately. For me, this is where the story begins to be interesting:
- Boeing and NTSB want the boxes to be brought right away to D.C., as there is where the most qualified to assess are located
- Ethiopia (he wasn't certain of the Indonesian situation) is of absolutely zero mind to do so. Rather, it wants to send its box to a UK-based lab.
- It is crucial not only to look at each box - of course - but to ascertain whether there is or is not an identical factor in the two accidents.