“Airmanship” can compensate for bad design, etc. But given the warranties of merchantability that we all rely on, should that be a requirement to save lives? Offshoring and H1B’s cost the economy money...and lives. The failure is one that is being replicated throughout our economy. Just with Boeing the failure was a bright line that could not be quietly fixed by management:
“We have also learned that no one at FAA wanted to work on the MAX certification—to the point that one of the engineers who did take a job on the effort told The New York Times he joked that he was high on drugs when he agreed to the assignment. We have learned that Indian coders engineered much of the software powering the MAX in offshore coding sweatshops as part of a campaign to make inroads in Airbus-dominated India, where one airline proceeded to order $22 billion worth of Boeing jets in 2017....
and indeed, much of the software on the MAX had been engineered by recent grads of Indian software-coding academies making as little as $9 an hour...”
Both Boeing and the Indian software company have made public statements that NONE of the software written in India was involved in ANY part of the two crash investigations.