On Thu, 23 Jan 2020 02:50:57 -0500, wrote:

On Wed, 22 Jan 2020 18:56:03 -0800, Bob F wrote:

On 1/22/2020 9:10 AM, Guilaumme Faury wrote:
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/01/22/trum...sis-grows.html


At one time, Boeing knew how to build airplanes.

When engineers ran the company - before the bean counters took over.
Capitalism at it's best today.

There is nothing wrong with the plane, they have a software problem.
It isn't the bean counters, it is those kids in sneakers who are
writing the bugware.

BTW a number of pilots have said if you know how to turn off the MCAS
(put in a little flap), you just land the plane and everyone makes
their connection.
It's the bean counters that made the second detector optional and put
kids in sneakers in charge of critical software.
It's bean counters that pushed the decision to not require
ransitional training from the 727 to the MAX.
It was, to a large extent, beancounters that drove the design to the
point MCAS was required in the first place.