[af_vet_1981]

1. "engineers had determined it wasn’t a safety issue." -- not managment
2. Given the tenor and purpose of the Bloomberg piece, had they been non-American engineers it would have said so.
3. Some percentage of Boeing engineers are in a union (SPEEA), and that union has the traditional tension with its own interests vs. the company's interests. I think that is probably the source of the article.

[CodeToad]

“”engineers had determined it wasn’t a safety issue.” — not managment”

Uh, no. The engineer are not the ones that make such determinations. I can guarantee you there is a chain of emails with engineers denouncing the decisions to do this. There is currently a whole host of conversations with Boeing engineers bailing within the safety critical cockpit systems so that this doesn’t blow back on them.

This is just like the Challenger disaster whereby management of NASA and Morton tried to throw the engineers under the bus until the memos from the engineers leaked out called for the grounding of the shuttle due to icing concerns.