Freewill
Active Member
Exactly correct. I've got pilot's endorsements on B737Max, as well as B767, B787, and B777, not to mention AIrbus 319/320/321, Embraer 175/190 as well as several regional jets and numerous turboprops.I'm part of the Boeing family, and happen to live a rocks throw from the Everett plant.
Your characterization of the MAX issue is flawed and overly simplified.
In an organization as bureaucratic as Boeing, there's plenty of blame to go around, and nearly impossible to pin the issue on one person or specific group.
Nissan and Boeing aren't the same.
The issues relating to the Max were not the result of an engineer trying to build what's best, but of an accounting group trying to keep training costs to a minimum by adapting an old air frame from the 1960's to allow for a common endorsement with a 'new' air plane. I loved flying the Max and it is an extremely safe airplane, but it isn't Boeing's best work when compared to the others I've flown from that manufacturer. To put the deaths on a single engineer as siggy suggests is to bury one's head deep in the sand. That airplane wasn't built to be an innovating leader in the market, it was built to provide an inexpensive alternative to the more popular, and better engineered airplane from AIrbus, the 320NEO.