Originally Posted by
derjodel
Doesn’t Boeing basically admit negligence and responsibility for the crash with the original design?
The whole “it was safe but now it’s safer” spin is like mcdonalds lowering the temperature of coffee “just to make it even safer and more full bodied now”. Remember, mcdonalds had to pay 2.7M just for burns - to a single person.
Likewise, when I read their statement, "to make a safe airplane safer" I also raised the eyebrow.
Evidently FAA and Boeing both agreed these were
required changes to MCAS logic from what they could learn from LionAir. Why the type was not grounded then and instead they let the fleet fly
while developing the fix which is now being required to have them airworthy again is very questionable...