Originally Posted by
michaelbinary
All the armchair pilots giving it large, they should have done this or that or the other are talking crap.
This whole thing was about money and how to spend as little as possible.
Boeing producing an aircraft not fit or safe to fly without extra added systems to correct the inherent pitch instability.
Boeing for not telling about or training the pilots what MCAS was or did and how to defeat it.
Boeing for not designing any redundancy into the system or cross checking with other systems.
Boeing for not testing the system and/or the software that controlled it properly or extensively enough to cover all eventualities
Boeing for not having a bloody OFF switch that allowed the pilots to fly the plane when all else fails.
FAA for being complicit in allowing Boeing to self certify an aircraft (WTF ?)
US Government for being complicit in allowing FAA and Boeing to act that way.
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A few more for the mix:
Boeing for minimizing the changes in the emergency AD to keep the "covered by existing procedures" and 'just like NG" myths alive..
Boeing for
REMOVING the
OFF switch, 737 NG right hand trim cutout of automation only, MAX either switches cut all electric trim.
Boeing/others? for removing training on unloading to allow manual trim when severely out of trim. (roller coaster)
Boeing for providing an emergency backup manual trim system that could not be operated under some out of trim conditions.
Penultimate Lion Air pilots for the as yet unexplained minimal write up that led to AoA sensor not diagnosed/corrected.
Unknown at this point cause of Lion Air sensor reading 20 degrees offset not detect during post instal testing.
As some have suggested it is possible that ET crew awareness of MCAS may have been a factor, impossible to say of course what would have happened had they been the first to experience this.