Ethiopian plane crash

[2fast748]

Boeing and the FAA really aren't inspiring confidence are they?

[TonyToniTone]

Seems a small fine..

Boeing will pay $2.5bn to resolve US investigation into 737 MAX disasters.
https://news.sky.com/story/boeing-will-pay-25bn-to...

[General George Smiley]

TonyToniTone said:

Seems a small fine..

Boeing will pay $2.5bn to resolve US investigation into 737 MAX disasters.
https://news.sky.com/story/boeing-will-pay-25bn-to...

not read this but how does it stack up to what the families got?

[eliot]

So essentially a bribe in return for them dropping the charge of conspiracy to defraud the United States then.

[Digga]

eliot said:

So essentially a bribe in return for them dropping the charge of conspiracy to defraud the United States then.

Well fortunate for Boeing, it was "only" and Ethiopian plane...

The whole thing stinks.

[take-good-care-of-the-forest-dewey]

Much of the problem is the US style of regulation. It permits a triggers broom development of an old design reference point.

Scenario testing is also based on prescriptive lists rather than first principle analysis. Funnily enough I was reading a paper by NASA and FAA exploring future regulatory approaches for UAV. It was going down the same prescriptive list route.

The only route out for Boeing IMO is to submit max as a brand new design and develop a new integrated safety case for it.