Originally Posted by
HighWind
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..
Possible until crash one, by crash 2 they would be very marginal on law breaking - but my money is on prior crash one at very least moral laws were broken.