Manthrust
Yes, it is true I feel a certain affinity with the thing but not a blind one, there are issues, they need addressing I don't deny it. Were there aspects of the management of the program that turned out to be less than great? Absolutely!
As you point out it does get a disproportional coverage for every problem but even that I can sort of understand, the thing that winds me up more is the whole conspiracy theory, that is so prevalent here, that somehow there is an unholy alliance between Boeing, all the airlines of the world and all the worlds regulators to deliberately cover up a raft of known and catastrophic failings in the airplane.
It ain't so and it never could be!
I am well aware of the fact that this particular issue is bad and actually you would be right to be very p***ed off because it has been a known issue on other airplanes so something went wrong that really should not have, I know that there will be a bunch of folk in Everett right now who will working this, fixing it and from what they find, looking at other systems to see if the same could have happened there.
What those folk will not be doing is covering it up. In Mike Sinnett's day he would be along, sitting on the corner of desks in the 40-88 building asking some very, very good questions and the last thing he or anyone else will do is stifle debate.
Sadly for us, what they will also not be doing is posting their findings here!
But when the problem is found it will be fixed and the reasons for it will be given to those who need to know and lessons will be learned.
Last edited by fenland787; 15th August 2013 at 16:37.