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His dudeness
But you´re right, one wonders, 346 killed, nobody (to my knowledge) in custody, after the VW diesel scandal broke in the US (an ESTIMATED 59 premature deaths acc. to a study), the gloves were off immediately.
There is a difference..
VW knew they were breaking the law..
Boeing knew that the B737 is not state of the art, but there is no evidence that Boeing knew that the design was dangerous.
However:
On page 15 of
https://www.easa.europa.eu/sites/def...20ISS%2010.pdf
It seems like FAA/Boeing have delivered evidence to EASA to confirm that the manual trim wheel is usable in ‘certain corners of the envelope’, in situations where the trim forces are too high for the electrical trim.
The question is if Boeing knew that the manual trim forces were too high for an average pilot..