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Precisely, the old Boeing would not need reminding.
Nor would they have lobbied the President to intervene if they were certain the data supported their public rehearsed statements of safety.
I'm sure they're burning a lot of midnight oil at Boeing amid constant urging from the CEO on down to fix the problem 'yesterday'. As Trump said, 'Boeing is under great pressure', which is not a good working environment when dealing with critical safety issues. When some of the dust settles, I hope the appropriate people will take a broader look at the Max program. MCAS is far from the only new software on the airplanes. FMC U13 was all about layering Max changes on top of the existing performance algorithms and data that also support the NG and OG models. Entirely new engine performance and thrust management software and data were required for the Max models as well as changes to the performance database which holds the data for all of the OG/NG/Max model/engine/rating combinations, of which there are hundreds of permutations. I sincerely hope that all of the initial problems with keeping all of that separated and straight got ironed out in the end and thoroughly verified. Again, these are things largely transparent to the flight crews and customers, so I'm pretty sure that Boeing wouldn't have 'burdened' them with excess information.