With all due respect, H1b visas are not in play here. While I do understand your comment and appreciate that perspective this is a case of Boeing Management wanting to deliver a 737 variant that required no additional training to use as a sales tool. Then they needed bigger engines to match the airbus competitor. The larger engines required a nacelle/wing change that change the characteristics of the plane. So in order to keep the “no additional training” point they developed MCAS which automagically made the MAX variant fly the same as the non MAX. Mistake number 1 was to let marketing needs override engineering (typical management mistake). Number 2 was single sensor input.
Um, no.
Ignoring the fact that MCAS did NOT make the aircraft fly the same is an egregious error.
It would literally put the stabilizer at max deflection with no action by the pilots to disengage power after multiple cycles.
That’s criminal in my book. The single sensor is another matter altogether.
Mistake #1 was assuming pilots cannot fly an aircraft without stalling (what I argue is a path to automated flight). Mistake #2 was separating AOA disagree as an option which - combined with the lack of training - doomed at least one of the planes. Mistake #3 was letting Boeing certify itself.
The first plane crashed due principally due to failure of the airline to flag the aircraft for a faulty sensor on a maintenance hold, ostensibly damaged by a bird strike.
I will concede, however, that unbeknownst to me Boeing has been incorporating automated flight characteristics similar to MCAS for years in terms of trim while in manual flight. From their point of view, MCAS was a natural evolution.
They just EFFED it up in the worst way possible, got the FAA to let them self-certify it and failed on all accounts in training, manuals & informing pilots while negligently failing to adequately flight test the aircraft to speed it into market.
We may never know if H1B visa engineers played a role, but my knowledge of outsourcing and how EFFED up software is that’s developed by H1B subs merits more than a total dismissal of the matter.