Comment by pnutjam
2 years ago
Sorry, but your suffering from the tech mindset, traditional engineering and manufacturing is a different skill set and many of your assumptions are off.
I encourage people to tinker with modern electronics and software, it's usually harmless and you can learn easily. That's not the case with air crafts and air travel. You need to learn BEFORE doing. Getting interested in flying and airplanes is probably the most dangerous thing for modern dilettantes, maybe tinkering with explosives is more dangerous.
What is wrong about my assumptions? I'm not advocating for "move fast and break things" in aviation, I'm saying that actually the issues at Boeing are not as dire as some people believe when considered in their broader context. I struggle to see how that is a tech mindset, really I think what I can be accused of credibly is carrying water for a defense-industrial complex, and that's the part of my argument that I struggle with.
None of the problems we've seen lately are things that someone just didnt forsee happening over the course of years. It was simply a failure to properly install or inspect fairly simple parts of the plane. While I agree that these are complex machines with many moving parts, these were not complex failures. They should have Never happened and are completely unacceptable.