Wow, so they could've easily made it safer with the hardware they already had onboard, but chose not to because money?
Somewhere inside Boeing there are decision-makers that lack ethics (or even long-term financial thinking). They need to be fired.
Somewhere inside Boeing there are decision-makers that lack ethics (or even long-term financial thinking). They need to be fired.
https://www.mymoneyblog.com/boeing-engineer-dream-job-nightm...
There's a Bloomberg article I've been trying to track down from back in the 2000's where a Boeing exec is quoted as saying that Boeing is going to undergo a financial transformation, part of which involved decreased "over thinking the box" and stripping all that wasteful effort (what engineers call the hard parts) from the process in order to bring Boeing into the mainstream as an optimized shareholder value generating machine.
This happened apparently shortly after the McDonnell Douglas merger as I understand it.
Specifically, because airlines wanted to save money on pilot training.
https://leehamnews.com/2019/03/20/boeing-didnt-want-to-re-en...