New input to FAA's proposed requirements for returning the aircraft to service, in the form of comments to FAA. From Aviation Week (not paywalled, it appears):
https://aviationweek.com/air-transpo...6d7e442eee4218
On the subject of engineers and obligation to question and/or object to management decisions or other questionable situations, with the strong push that is looming in the Congress to reform the FAA processes, what changes to make to the DER or ODA scheme probably will be a difficult question. (NYT reported several months ago on a variety of lobbying inputs made by Boeing in the last reauthorization measure by which the latitude given to the manufacturer was increased; paring it back and setting up a better process - one more faithful to the concerns expressed in-thread - won't be as easy as a dink-and-dunk for short yardage over the middle.)