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
A retired 737 pilot explained it to me in one sentence.
“Score for the computer is two, score for pilots is zero.”