On Mar 24, 10:56*pm, rangerssuck wrote:
On Sunday, March 24, 2013 7:55:12 PM UTC-4, Joe Gwinn wrote:
Well, the individual companies (for battery and for charger) no doubt
satisfied their respective contracts. *It's Boeing that should have
insisted of a full-up test, and it's the FAA that should also have
insisted that Boeing insist.

And had the FAA insisted, you can bet that SOMEONE certainly would have complained about excess government regulation driving up the costs. But yes, this testing should have been done, regulation or no regulation.

That someone being Republican.

TMT