Bit late for the 346 already dead passengers and crew...
Updates to manouvering, flight system control law, pilot displays, operations and crew manuals.
It rather looks like Boeing did the 'cheapskate gaming software developer trick' and unleashed a Beta System - y'know, where they release it and let the punters find the bugs and report back because lots of punters playing games in real life is a lot faster, cheaper and far more effective at finding bugs than 'in house' testing prior to launch.
Wonders if the investigation will go deep as to seek out 'what was known' by Boeing before sales were launched?
But ... well, how can a company of that size actually 'be punished' if / when they put profits ahead of safety?
Nor anyone else who'd not choose to play RUssian Roulette !
The US FAA have ordered multiple mandatory changes ... yet insist the ship is fit to fly ?
And of course NZ (as usual) toes the US line ...
At this stage it's probably possible to argue that any future crashes are 'predictable or foreseeable events' which might let Boeing's Insurers off the hook ! Average award is between 1 and 3 million USD ... that's around 700 million payout plus the costs of the lost aircraft and the loss of revenue to the operators ... and perhaps also 'loss of reputation'
Butcher559: Is anyone sueing boeing over these crashes ? they need to be taken down for errors like that.
Early days for that yet - but it will certainly happen. As I said earlier usual payout is 1 to 3 million US$ per life lost, plus the cost of the aircraft, plus loss of revenue + loss of reputation of the carrier.
The FAA say on the hand 'It's safe to fly' yet on the other have 'mandated software and system changes'. Dianne Feinstein has said the only intelligent thing I heard her say in decades - asking for them all to be grounded.
I suspect a different outcome if one crashed on US territory or if this had involved foreign (ie non US built) aircraft ... Let's hope and pray no more lives are lost.
Butcher559: Boeing should pull out of making planes, they are better at making weapons than making planes.
I'd not have thought they were 'that bad' ... but speaking of weapons - there's a whole raft of their new military aircraft that have been pulled from service due to problems with foreign bodies in the fuel system! And Lockheed are years overdue on the new F35 ... which also has a defect list that runs into hundreds (according to engineering staff ) but Congress winnowed it down to 100 ... cos they know better than engineers - right!!!
Trump said something interesting - about aircraft having become 'TOO complex' ?
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Updates to manouvering, flight system control law, pilot displays, operations and crew manuals.
It rather looks like Boeing did the 'cheapskate gaming software developer trick' and unleashed a Beta System - y'know, where they release it and let the punters find the bugs and report back because lots of punters playing games in real life is a lot faster, cheaper and far more effective at finding bugs than 'in house' testing prior to launch.
Wonders if the investigation will go deep as to seek out 'what was known' by Boeing before sales were launched?
But ... well, how can a company of that size actually 'be punished' if / when they put profits ahead of safety?