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ATC Watcher
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Pax Britanica :
This looks to me as been a sentence dictated by lawyers rather than a fact, but I am sure that if it is not true we will see copies of emails surfacing in the Seattle Times or Wall Street Journal pretty soon ...
Note the other distancing strategy:
The software delivered to Boeing linked the AOA Disagree alert to the AOA indicator, which is an optional feature on the MAX and the NG. Accordingly, the software activated the AOA Disagree alert only if an airline opted for the AOA indicator.
This suggests some contractor somewhere is being lined up to shoulder the blame, or at least allow Boeing to reduce their exposure.
We're expected to believe that Boeing specified the feature correctly, but did not assess the software that got returned, or test it exhaustively? Did the contractor also get to self-certify?