[CondoleezzaProtege]

...fired up by a newly intense commitment to Christianity...

[willk]

I just flew on a 737 Max. That engine cowling sure is huge!

[BobL]

I tell my kids that if they listen to the Pointy-Headed libertarian types, and think business will do what’s best for safety, and government should stay out, they will be sadly disappointed.

But the people at the FAA (and this goes back to long before Trump) aren’t my kids, so they entrusted certification to people who could have higher priorities (i.e., stock price) and it finally came home to roost, once the management team was in place that put safety last.

[Capt. Tom]

When he did get a look at the system, Jacobsen said he was “shocked to discover that the airplane was purposely designed and certified to use just one AOA (Angle of Attack) input for a flight critical function.”

I have no expertise in airplanes but to me that single Angle of Attack input leapt out at me.

To me it is like selling automobiles to the public with only rear wheel brakes. Do you need front wheel brakes also? No, but if you lose the rear wheel brakes because of a broken or leaking brake fluid line , you my very well crash the car. -Tom

[HamiltonJay]

I said when this happened, that the only way this plane EVER got certified airworthy was one of the following in order of likelyhood:

BOEING LIED (by omission or actively) to the FAA (most likely)
The FAA was bribed to look the other way (Plausible much less likely)
OR the FAA was utterly incompetent at all levels (not likely)

I pointed that the simple fact that this system was operating with only input from a single sensor, and thus a single point of failure, would not pass the most basic oversight by the most JR person doing airworthiness certification.

Now it appears that I was right.. BOEING LIED BY OMISSION to get this aircraft certified. They as an organization are guilty of conspiracy, they are guilty of hundreds of counts of Murder in the Third Degree. Yet 2 years later not one individual is facing such charges... or been arrested.

Boeing as a company is negotiating with the Justice Department on its punishment for its actions.. but not one person is currently facing to my knowledge ANY JAIL TIME for this... and the Justice Department plans to keep it that way from all I can see.

DISGUSTING!! MURDER, FLAT OUT MURDER HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE AND GET A FINE.... INSANITY

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/boeing-charged-737-max-fraud-conspiracy-and-agrees-pay-over-25-billion

[nagant]

The Texas cold front just proved what “deregulation” does in an industry which the public is forced, by the nature of the industry, to rely on for our lives. By their nature politicians are accountable to the public. Companies are not.