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Bend alot
Any evidence for that bird strike ET had?
Bad part was certainly a contributing factor and Neanderthal type work is not limited to African countries.
While the engineering concept of the MAX is very poor, the intentional secrecy of MCAS and the changes that had to be made for the system to work was a larger part of "everything".
If the system was known, key information given (pulling back on the stick no longer his the cut out switches guys), correct training given - we probably would not be talking about the MAX now. But it was too important for the MAX to be just an NG.
Are Boeing still doing lots of flight testing in the MAX?
All of that information was made available to Ethiopian Airlines prior to the crash and the Ethiopian pilots, the management, and Ethiopia's CAA all knew what training the pilots had. Since the plane was developed according to the requests of the customer base, the responability for it to be similar to the NG lies with those spending the money to buy them.
Blaming a single hole for the entire mess ignores the potential for another similar problem leading to similar results. Fix all the holes.