Talk Morgan Forums Community The Malvern Arms The Sickness of Boeing

And therein lies the problem
Not every airline tells you before you book what type of plane or model thereof you will fly on, sometimes post booking yes, sometimes not at all and no booking takes into account last minute plane swaps.
I really don’t trust Boeing

Another example of value engineered software coin with insufficient, sloppy testing.

Fujitsu supplied software for the British Post Offices: it was was flawed, with the result that some innocent Postmasters and Postmistresses ended up bankrupt and in prison.
The Post Office is paying compensation, convictions will be over rulled, but there are suggestions in the media that Fujitsu employees, giving evidence in fraud trials, lied in court to protect their employer, and I guess, their jobs.

Glad I'm retired.

Well that and "its obviously all the fault of the stupid African pilots".

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/18/...module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage

I had already wondered in the summer if it would be enough to rewrite a little bit of software when the production continued as if nothing drastic had happened. It doesn't look like that because otherwise they would have avoided a production stop at any price. The dishonest and partly unscrupulous management in Chicago has not only 346 victims on its conscience but also many thousands of jobs at the suppliers and the own plants.
Regarding the „stupid pilots“ they were at least not informed or briefed. But in the case of the first crash, Boeing is not responsible for one special circumstance. Namely that the same plane had the same life-threatening problems almost a day before. It was an uninvolved pilot on the shuttle seat who had rescued the plane because the flying pilots were unaware and obviously without intuition. But the real scandal of Lion Air was that the new crew that crashed the day after was not informed of these incidents and that the replaced scrappy AOA sensor was not inspected. This should not and cannot relieve Boeing, but several things always come together.