Hundreds of highly skilled experienced people would have been in on it. Why did not one man/woman speak up?
First off, you need to spend some time at Boeing. Look at the news articles going back 10 to 15 years, and the recent ones. Boeing has done voluntary payouts of those experienced people, or laid off thousands.
In the last few years, early outs and layoffs were focused on the engineering staff, and most recently, the inspectors.
Not sure if Boeing has any engineers left with more than 5 years of experience.
Everything has been outsourced. The engineering is done in pieces, you work on a small piece, but only a few review the whole.
Software is outsourced to Boeing India in Bangalore.
Technical pilots are not test pilots per se. Most tech pilots at Boeing have no experience, and have been hired straight out of UND. Virtually none have ever flown a flight with pax, all flight time in sim, getting more types.
Now, does how the MAX was self certified with all of the errors make more sense?
EDIT: on a side note, the new Chief Technical Pilot for Boeing was at Ryanair for 11 years.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/pagustavsson