SaturnV wrote...
"Safety concerns, false analog. Maintenance had taped over the static ports, and the 757 took off in that condition. Is Boeing to be faulted because its engineers failed to anticipate the possibility of incompetence and/or gross negligence, and thus did not design and install a static-ports-are-taped-over sensor."
If you are referring to the Birgenair Flight 301 that had taken off Puerto Plata's Gregorio Luperón International Airport in the Dominican Republic and crashed into the ocean, it was not as some say some "tape" that had covered the static port.
Investigators suspected that some kind of insect could have created a nest inside the pitot tube. The prime suspect is a species called the black and yellow mud dauber wasp, well-known by pilots flying in the Dominican Republic.
The aircraft had not flown in 25 days during which time the pitot tubes were not covered, giving the wasps an opportunity to build nests in the tubes.