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Old 18th Sep 2020, 18:25
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Some one had suggested that this was an "SMS problem", or represents "the" problem with SMS. No way - first, SMS is an airline safety process and that is not the main problem here. Added: While there was an oversight authority within the BCA called the ODA (Organization Designation Authorisation) in place from November 2005, (Report, pg 59),pointing at SMS as a primary factor would be a significant misunderstanding of what really happened here and why. Your remarks re Boeing/board & CEO are true and demonstrate that they don't "get it" yet and so remain the kernel of the problem. The forces that led them into this hole, will lead them there again. And it's not just Boeing that has embraced that model of governance since the early 90's, but this is an aviation forum and for me, shall stay that way.

added full sentence: It's almost as if resolving this kind of an embedded/endemic corporate pathology would need a "new blood" approach given the entrenched pathways of action and relationships which are knit so tightly in the American economic/corporate fabric.

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