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Former Boeing 737 Max Chief Technical Pilot Indicted for Fraud
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Re: Former Boeing 737 Max Chief Technical Pilot Indicted for Fraud
#182Re: Former Boeing 737 Max Chief Technical Pilot Indicted for Fraud
#183It is important to note that Boeing settled for 2.5 billion in which it is agreed that "...the misconduct by its former employees was “neither pervasive across the organization, nor undertaken by a large number of employees, nor facilitated by senior management". ( https://www.wsj.com/articles/boeing-reaches-2-5-billion-sett... ). So remember, when push comes to shove, the technical lead always gets thrown to the wol…
I took a gig at a hospital. They got an MBA Karen with 3 years of experience. She learned the very basics of IT, then started micromanaging. As in, she'd tell you what switches to put on CLI commands. If you said that's wrong, or would cause data corruption - you're not a team player. The entire team of 18 people were not team players - the team consisted of her alone. One time, she told me to do something very dange…
Thank you for taking the time to write such a insightful post. Some lessons are invaluable, and I believe this is one of them.
Re: Former Boeing 737 Max Chief Technical Pilot Indicted for Fraud
#184It is important to note that Boeing settled for 2.5 billion in which it is agreed that "...the misconduct by its former employees was “neither pervasive across the organization, nor undertaken by a large number of employees, nor facilitated by senior management". ( https://www.wsj.com/articles/boeing-reaches-2-5-billion-sett... ). So remember, when push comes to shove, the technical lead always gets thrown to the wol…
I took a gig at a hospital. They got an MBA Karen with 3 years of experience. She learned the very basics of IT, then started micromanaging. As in, she'd tell you what switches to put on CLI commands. If you said that's wrong, or would cause data corruption - you're not a team player. The entire team of 18 people were not team players - the team consisted of her alone. One time, she told me to do something very dange…
Depending on country/state you could possibly sue for wrongful termination. In addition, you could send your story to media or contact someone higher in the food chain of the company.
Re: Former Boeing 737 Max Chief Technical Pilot Indicted for Fraud
#185Earlier quoted context omitted.
What you talk about the FAA doing thier own testing and validation is (unfortunately) almost impossible. Back in the 90s, a senior FAA official (I think a Director) had said something along the lines of “The FAA does not and cannot check everything, we just see that companies are doing their tests.” The FAA would require several times more manpower to be able to actually audit or test everything, and that is assuming…
That sounds like they are knowingly incompetent? If a utility regulator had no one on staff who knew how utility scale power transmission/generation/whatever worked, that’s what we’d call it for sure. And aerospace engineers are dirt cheap. What sort of clown show is the FAA running?
> And aerospace engineers are dirt cheap.
I suspect you're letting your software world experience dictate your expectations of what engineering is all about, and what it takes to actually get work done.
Software development is a rare field where the only relevant resource is man hours. In other fields, including aerospace engineering, trained meat bags tend to have a negligible cost to the point where replacing a whole engineering team might be a minor inconvenience. However, crashing a prototype is a project killer due to cost alone.
Re: Former Boeing 737 Max Chief Technical Pilot Indicted for Fraud
#186Earlier quoted context omitted.
I took a gig at a hospital. They got an MBA Karen with 3 years of experience. She learned the very basics of IT, then started micromanaging. As in, she'd tell you what switches to put on CLI commands. If you said that's wrong, or would cause data corruption - you're not a team player. The entire team of 18 people were not team players - the team consisted of her alone. One time, she told me to do something very dange…
"The fish smells from the head" - turkish proverb
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Re: Former Boeing 737 Max Chief Technical Pilot Indicted for Fraud
#187While I don't have any sympathy for this pilot, I also find the FAA's excuses here to be less than convincing. Basically, their position is "Well, we trusted this Boeing employee to tell us the truth about the new flight controls, and he didn't." But if the regulators had actually done their job and independently evaluated the new flight controls, they wouldn't have had to take the word of any Boeing employees. I rea…
What you talk about the FAA doing thier own testing and validation is (unfortunately) almost impossible. Back in the 90s, a senior FAA official (I think a Director) had said something along the lines of “The FAA does not and cannot check everything, we just see that companies are doing their tests.” The FAA would require several times more manpower to be able to actually audit or test everything, and that is assuming…
Your comment boils down to a false dilemma fallacy between "FAA blindly trusts manufacturers" and "FAA conducts their own testing and validation." Clearly they could have been more actively reviewing stuff coming from Boeing, or engaging in some level of auditing.
If the FAA had paid attention they would have seen a company desperate to compete modifying numerous basic characteristics of an airplane to the point of making it aerodynamically unstable, using a flight control system as a bandaid to fix this.
Not to mention being such massively cheap assholes that they literally didn't install warning lights in the cockpit to tell the pilots when the sensor their flight computer would use to override control inputs, had failed.
Re: Former Boeing 737 Max Chief Technical Pilot Indicted for Fraud
#188I'm sure this guy knew what he was doing - but yes, he was probably coerced or induced by someone with more authority. There's no way the buck stops there.
He definitely knew what he was doing and yea he was pressured, read his email on page 3: https://transportation.house.gov/imo/media/doc/Compressed%20...
Re: Former Boeing 737 Max Chief Technical Pilot Indicted for Fraud
#189While I don't have any sympathy for this pilot, I also find the FAA's excuses here to be less than convincing. Basically, their position is "Well, we trusted this Boeing employee to tell us the truth about the new flight controls, and he didn't." But if the regulators had actually done their job and independently evaluated the new flight controls, they wouldn't have had to take the word of any Boeing employees. I rea…
Given that the engines were moved forward changing the Centre of Mass I would expect an Aerospace Engineer to be aware and concerned that this is an issue that would require an automated intervention to correct for that, and that would need to be extremely robust.
In hindsight that’s easy for me to say, and the FAA had gone to relying on Boeing engineers, but as mentioned if there was huge pressure for Boeing to compete things could get overlooked.
Re: Former Boeing 737 Max Chief Technical Pilot Indicted for Fraud
#190Always seems like some person in the middle of these companies and regulators that always gets hit and not someone deeper in the companies or regulators. Not denying or affirming this person’s role, but it seems to be a pattern, whether it’s financial institutions, corporations, defense contractors, etc. and their associated regulatory bodies.
If you dig deeper he was clearly aware of the issue and chose to cut corners even though he was of course pressured, read his email on page 3: https://transportation.house.gov/imo/media/doc/Compressed%20...