737 MAX Safety Tests Covering Increasingly Remote Failure Risks

Reviews of grounded Boeing jet are expanding beyond the automated flight-control system behind two crashes

A portion of the ongoing testing and analysis is delving into extremely remote but potentially catastrophic problems. . .

It took one of the pilots [in the Boeing flight simulator] 16 seconds to identify and react to the malfunction, significantly longer than current FAA certification rules and safety guidelines permit. . . if an airline crew confronted such a problem—even though chances of it happening are extremely small—the consequences could be catastrophic.

BUSINESS AS USUAL (August 4)

Come on, be practical,

what are that the odds

that another one's likely to crash?

And if one does

it will likely be

due to a circumstance

beyond Boeing's control.

A poorly-trained foreign pilot's mistake.

Boeing's an icon.

GIVE ME A BREAK!

You really want Boeing,

a truly great firm,

to suffer a stock market crash?

Or to go under

and U.S. investors

to lose hundreds of bundles,
hard American cash?

To say nothing of jobs.

Poor working slobs

build these technical wonders.

Must investors (and workers)

be made to pay for a

a series of management blunders?

Management acted in total good faith

rushing this jet to the market.

Carriers loved it mostly because

pilots already knew how to park it

and fly it since it flew the same

as previous planes with this number.

Except it didn't and the software was faulty.

For that you think the firm should go under?

Some days it rains, some days it sunny.

Take this to the bank: Boeing. Makes. Money.

If someone dies because they make a mistake. . .

what can we say? Those are the breaks.