Originally Posted by
MechEngr
Boeing systems engineers simply failed to ask, what if pilots ignore the increasing trim loads and attempt to muscle the plane instead of using the trim switches?
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I have to say I saw red with that statement. Your statement may be true for the original MCAS but it is manifestly untrue for the production software that literally gave seconds for the crew to recognize and respond to the failure before the BS designed for the 707 in 1957 manual trim system became immovable. Then after it was obvious the airplane had a problem with MCAS 7 days after the Lion Air crash the bean counters and lawyers tried to finesse the issue for months until the next crash. The Airbus is a good design but it is now almost 40 years old. Boeing had a chance to design a truly next generation narrow body that would have established it as the segment leader. Instead they did the cheap, nasty fast route to update a design this 63 year first flew on when he was 9. That plus the 757 replacement would have crushed Airbus for the nest 25 years. That is what 40 Billion dollars would have bought, a future for Boeing. The stock buybacks instead enriched a few and terminally impoverished the company