Originally Posted by
remi
The very last person responsible for the slow-motion MAX train wreck is the executive leading the project.
You have any actual evidence of that? He was the one executive who closest to the project, who was expected to know what was going on - he'd have a far better idea of the health of the program than the executives outside D.C.
Do you know he raised any alarms that perhaps this cost cutting was going too far, that the product was suffering?
Originally Posted by
remi
The people actually responsible are the ones who put him there and kept him there while he executed their plans in accordance with their wishes. Clark had just been doing his job. For 18 years.
So his job was to run the program into the ground for last 18 years? His job was to encourage and enable a culture where cutting corners and dodging paperwork (which allowed an aircraft to be delivered with no bolts holding a door plug closed) was allowed - even encouraged? His job was to oversee production where non-airworthy aircraft are delivered to the customer? Encouraging 'lean' manufacture is one thing - allowing incompetent manufacturing is totally different.
Originally Posted by
remi
Who are they going to replace him with? Someone who was a "Senior Quality Manager" for three months? She will no doubt bring about a complete change in safety and quality culture.
Given that QC/QA in Renton is seriously deficient, can you think of a better person to put the train back on the rails than someone who was a Quality Manager?