Originally Posted by
Big Pistons Forever
I find conspiracy theories about the MAX pretty hard to believe. What is easy to believe is a Boeing management engineering culture that prioritized the absolute minimum changes to the 737 so that Boeing could advertise upgrading to the Max would not incur any training cost to airlines.
That's a crowbar separation. If you mean that Boeing did NOT have a meeting on a basement floor where Muilenberg said, "Let's put passengers in grieve danger to line our pockets with gold", no, that probably never happened... I hope. So the differential you pose is strictly linguistic. It wasn't a "conspiracy" but I seriously doubt nobody questioned the new system and its implementation. One of the whistleblowers is suing Boeing and Boeing's defence of "he was a bad enginner because he expenced alcoholic beverages on business dinners" is not indicative of a strong "discussion culture" in the company.