'Designed by clowns': Boeing messages raise serious questions about 737 Max

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'Designed by clowns': Boeing messages raise serious questions about 737 Max

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https://www.theguardian.com/business/20 ... l-messages
The messages sent between 2015 and 2018 show unnamed employees discussing the potentially fatal implications of what they believed was substandard work on the 737 Max project.

In an exchange in 2018, one refers to “to the very very few of us on the program who are interested only in truth”, and asks: “Would you put your family on a MAX simulator trained aircraft? I wouldn’t.”

The other employee responded: “No.”

In instant messages sent in April 2017 complaining about the Max’s flight management technology, an employee wrote: “This airplane is designed by clowns who in turn are supervised by monkeys.” They referred to its “piss poor design” and urged: “Let’s just patch the leaky boat”.

Referring to the Federal Aviation Authority, the US regulator that certified the plane as safe to fly, another message says: “I’ll be shocked if the FAA passes this turd.”
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This whole thing is the fault of the bean counters and stock holders trying to save a buck instead of certing a new air frame.
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