A software fix to the Boeing 737 MAX was delayed for months as discussions between regulators and Boeing dragged on—and U.S. officials said the government shutdown halted work on the fix for five weeks. https://t.co/jLk3LuIQnv
— Rebecca Ballhaus (@rebeccaballhaus) March 13, 2019
The not-so-friendly skies
Secretary of Transportation Chao, the wife of Mitch McConnell, waited 4 days until she received her instructions from Trump to ground the Boeing 737 US fleet.
Boeing donated $1 million to Trump’s inauguration gala.
The acting Secretary of Defense, Patrick Shanahan, was a senior vice president at Boeing before going to the Defense Department.
The fix was in.
Follow the money. Trump had no one in charge at the FAA. Boeing paid a cool one million into the Inaugural. I wonder how many pilot reports of manual auto-pilot shutdown were dust binned between the Lion Air crash and the Ethiopian Air crash? At those “cheap” air fares, can we expect to be anything more than guinea pigs.
from comments at Mahablog –
“If it wasn’t for the FAA, Boeing planes would be dropping out of the skies like sparrows. Here’s a guy who got fired for doing his Boeing job, but made the fatal mistake of having integrity: https://www.thelastboeinginspector.com/”
If you click on the link to ‘the last boeing inspector’ it becomes clear that the FAA has been utterly corrupted. Instead of doing their own inspections, they ask Boeing to report on problems and then take whatever the company tells them at face value.