Boeing 737 Max
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A panel of international air-safety experts is set to condemn the U.S. approval process for Boeing’s 737 MAX jets, The Wall Street Journal reports.
The task force is finishing its report into how the flawed jets were allowed to fly in the first place, and it’s expected to call out the Federal Aviation Administration for what it reportedly describes as a lack of clarity and transparency in the way it allowed Boeing to assess the safety of certain flight-control features.
It will reportedly conclude that essential design changes didn’t get enough attention from the FAA. The report will also say the agency didn’t share enough data with foreign authorities during its original approval of the MAX two years ago, and relied on mistaken assumptions about how pilots would react to flight-control emergencies.
The report will be released in the next few weeks and will be the first official outside review of MAX certification since the fleet was grounded around the world following two crashes.
www.thedailybeast.com/boeing-737-max-international-panel-of-experts-wi
ll-condemn-faa-jet-approval-says-report
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Didn't that all happen under St Obama's tenure?
The insane never-Trumpers will be driven even more insane in the wash/ rinse/ spin/ repeat/ cycle they mistake for reality.
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Quote:The Republican controlled Congress cut the budget to the FAA. The result? Plane crashes. Republicans cut the IRS budget. The result? $500 billion per year increase in tax cheating.
Originally posted by 1KIKI:
Didn't that all happen under St Obama's tenure?
“Unfortunately, we no longer have a stable, predictable funding stream, and this uncertainty has caused serious problems in the system,” Rinaldi testified. “We have experienced 24 short-term extensions of authorization, a partial shutdown of the FAA, a complete government shutdown and numerous threats of government shutdowns.”
www.washingtonpost.com/local/trafficandcommuting/white-house-endorses-
plan-to-remove-30000-faa-workers-from-federal-payroll/2017/03/16/ce4a4e3c-099c-11e7-93dc-00f9bdd74ed1_story.html
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Originally posted by 1KIKI:
Didn't that all happen under St Obama's tenure?
Quote:Didn't St Obama sign that budget? Doesn't the buck stop with the President?
Originally posted by SLOPPY:
The Republican controlled Congress cut the budget to the FAA. The result? Plane crashes. Republicans cut the IRS budget.
The insane never-Trumpers will be driven even more insane in the wash/ rinse/ spin/ repeat/ cycle they mistake for reality.
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Quote:First point: "The buck stops here" is President Harry S Truman's motto. Truman nuked hundreds of thousands of civilians. Killing all those innocents did NOT bring WWII to a close, no matter what you been told by fools and ignoramuses, and it certainly did start an arms race that cost Truman's country more than $10 trillion and may destroy the world. Obviously, the buck does not stop with the President, for if it did, Truman deserves punishment.
Originally posted by 1KIKI:
Didn't St Obama sign that budget? Doesn't the buck stop with the President?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_weapons_of_the_United_States
Second point: Congress writes the budget; not the President. I have heard a thousand times the President blamed for what Congress did. If the President does NOT sign the budget, it is equivalent to the President nuking the Federal Government. See Nagasaki, Hiroshima, and Truman for how destructive that is.
Third point: From years of experience, I know you will never stop misunderstanding how government works and who is responsible for what, 1kiki. Not understanding is one of your defining characteristics, along with your feeling that you know what you don't know.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect
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If nukes weren't made in WWII, they eventually would have been made, which would have led to an inevitable arms race.
It's the main idea behind the theory that even if we're not alone in the universe, there's almost zero chance we'll ever be visited by anybody because the likelihood that any sentient race would develop space travel sophisticated enough to explore other planets before annihilating themselves is almost nil.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Quote:
Originally posted by second:Quote:First point: "The buck stops here" is President Harry S Truman's motto. Truman nuked hundreds of thousands of civilians. Killing all those innocents did NOT bring WWII to a close, no matter what you been told by fools and ignoramuses, and it certainly did start an arms race that cost Truman's country more than $10 trillion and may destroy the world. Obviously, the buck does not stop with the President, for if it did, Truman deserves punishment.
Originally posted by 1KIKI:
Didn't St Obama sign that budget? Doesn't the buck stop with the President?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_weapons_of_the_United_States
Second point: Congress writes the budget; not the President. I have heard a thousand times the President blamed for what Congress did. If the President does NOT sign the budget, it is equivalent to the President nuking the Federal Government. See Nagasaki, Hiroshima, and Truman for how destructive that is.
Third point: From years of experience, I know you will never stop misunderstanding how government works and who is responsible for what, 1kiki. Not understanding is one of your defining characteristics, along with your feeling that you know what you don't know.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
Why don't you stop blaming Trump for everything then.
Seems you do a lot of picking and choosing what rules you follow and when you follow them.
And you're the poster child for Dunning Kruger Syndrome. Not the good one either.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Quote:Trump came to Boeing's defense after the first and second crashes. He suggested rebranding that model so that passengers would forget what happened. It was only after every country in the world had banned the 737 MAX that Trump stopped pressuring the FAA to keep the 737 MAX flying.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Why don't you stop blaming Trump for everything then.
Seems you do a lot of picking and choosing what rules you follow and when you follow them.
And you're the poster child for Dunning Kruger Syndrome. Not the good one either.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
How Boeing's Managerial Revolution Created The 737 MAX Disaster
Nearly two decades before Boeing’s MCAS system crashed two of the plane-maker’s brand-new 737 MAX jets, Stan Sorscher knew his company’s increasingly toxic mode of operating would create a disaster of some kind. A long and proud “safety culture” was rapidly being replaced, he argued, with “a culture of financial bullshit, a culture of groupthink.”
Sorscher, a physicist who’d worked at Boeing more than two decades and had led negotiations there for the engineers’ union, had become obsessed with management culture. He said he didn’t previously imagine Boeing’s brave new managerial caste creating a problem as dumb and glaringly obvious as MCAS (or the Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System, as a handful of software wizards had dubbed it).
In the now infamous debacle of the Boeing 737 MAX, the company produced a plane outfitted with software programmed to override all pilot input and nosedive when a little vane on the side of the fuselage told it the nose was pitching up. The vane was also not terribly reliable, possibly due to assembly line lapses reported by a whistle-blower, and when the plane processed the bad data it received, it promptly dove into the sea.
It is understood, now more than ever, that capitalism does half-assed things like that, especially in concert with computer software and oblivious regulators: AIG famously told investors it was hard for management to contemplate “a scenario within any kind of realm of reason that would see us losing one dollar in any of those transactions” that would, a few months later, lose the firm well over $100 billion—but hey, the risk management algorithms had been wrong. A couple of years later, a single JP Morgan trader lost $6 billion because someone had programmed one of the cells in the bank’s risk management spreadsheet to divide two numbers by their sum instead of their average. Boeing was not, of course, a hedge fund: It was way better, a stock that had more than doubled since the Trump inauguration, outperforming the Dow in the 22 months before Lion Air 610 plunged into the Java Sea.
And so there was something unsettlingly familiar when the world first learned of MCAS in November 2018, about two weeks after the system’s unthinkable stupidity drove the two-month-old plane and all 189 people on it to a horrific death. It smacked of the sort of screwup a 23-year-old intern might have made — 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, part of Boeing management’s endless war on the unions that once represented more than half its employees.
Here, a generation after Boeing’s initial lurch into financialization, was the entirely predictable outcome of the byzantine process by which investment capital becomes completely abstracted from basic protocols of production and oversight: a flight-correction system that was essentially jerry-built to crash a plane. “If you’re looking for an example of late stage capitalism or whatever you want to call it,” said longtime aerospace consultant Richard Aboulafia, “it’s a pretty good one.”
“As an investment professional, allow me to inform Congress as to how Boeing has viewed this whole crisis.” Paul Njoroge laid out the sequence of 737 MAX orders, ten-figure stock buybacks, and dividend hikes.
“Could that be the reason Boeing did
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lol... oh.
You want to go back to the thread title now, huh?
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Quote:Trump came to Boeing's defense after the first and second crashes. He suggested rebranding that model so that passengers would forget what happened. It was only after every country in the world had banned the 737 MAX that Trump stopped pressuring the FAA to keep the 737 MAX flying. 6ixStringJack, you voted for that jackass Trump.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
lol... oh.
You want to go back to the thread title now, huh?
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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