Originally Posted by
cockpitvisit
Accodring to this
Bloomberg article , the problem is largely caused by incompatible CAD software used in German and French offices. This made it nearly impossible to propagate changes made by the German team to the French virtual mock-up and vice versa, and so there were several different design versions in use simultaneously.
Sounds strangely like the muckup that caused the demise of the
Fairchild Dornier 728 / 928 three years ago. Configuration control was a shambles; suppliers were building parts that were obsoleted by under-the-table design changes.
