Originally Posted by
Concours77
LoCo and 3rd world has nothing to do with this, the discussion revolves around a blatant lapse in judgment, perhaps law, by Boeing, and feigned ignorance by FAA.
The decisions to keep flying paying passengers with a consistent flight control problem was a local problem. Nobody in the FAA made them do that. (For all that the FAA have some holes in their block of cheese ...) I have addressed my concerns about trouble shooting/maintenance documentation in the Tech Log thread. Back to lurk, the signal to noise ratio in this thread is unfavorable.