Originally Posted by
Water pilot
]737MAX back in July?
Elon Musk got in severe trouble for making up information that could affect the stock price.
Fear of the SEC may also may explain why some posters have "gone dark."
Did Elon really get into trouble, what actual penalty or consequence of genuine note has he actually suffered? Who has been imprisoned for financial crimes and misdemeanors in the last decade? Bernie Madoff (
podcast of his story). White collar crime has been decriminalised.
Boeing executives are in all probability safe from the SEC. That's precisely why this financial Frankenstein aircraft was produced, executives get to keep their bonuses if it all worked out, and if it doesn't, oh well someone else will pay.
On the other hand, if I were a mid level engineering manager I would be extremely concerned. Someone had to ultimately sign off on the MCAS safety analysis, that person is likely to be the scapegoat in all this.
Seattle Times:
Current and former engineers directly involved with the evaluations or familiar with the document shared details of Boeing’s “System Safety Analysis” of MCAS, which The Seattle Times confirmed.
The safety analysis:
- Understated the power of the new flight control system, which was designed to swivel the horizontal tail to push the nose of the plane down to avert a stall. When the planes later entered service, MCAS was capable of moving the tail more than four times farther than was stated in the initial safety analysis document.
- Failed to account for how the system could reset itself each time a pilot responded, thereby missing the potential impact of the system repeatedly pushing the airplane’s nose downward.
- Assessed a failure of the system as one level below “catastrophic.” But even that “hazardous” danger level should have precluded activation of the system based on input from a single sensor — and yet that’s how it was designed..