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The past 10 months have not been good for Boeing for all sorts of reasons—capped off by the failure of the company's Starliner commercial crew vehicle to achieve the right orbit in its uncrewed premier in December. But the biggest of the company's problems remains the 737 Max, grounded since last spring after two crashes that killed 346 people between them. Combined, the crashes are the worst air disaster since September 11, 2001.
Both were at least partially caused by a sensor failure with no redundancy and a problem with MCAS (the new software controlling the handling of the aircraft) that the air crews had not been trained to overcome.
Boeing executives are now telling the company's 737 Max customers that the software fix required to make the airliner airworthy will not be approved in the near future, and that it will likely be June or July before the Federal Aviation Administration certifies the aircraft for flight again—meaning that the aircraft will have been grounded for at least 16 months.
The FAA, for its part, has not committed to any timeframe for re-certifying the aircraft. In an emailed statement, an FAA spokesperson said, "We continue to work with other safety regulators to review Boeing's work as the company conducts the required safety assessments and addresses all issues that arise during testing."
(Score: 1) by khallow on Tuesday January 28 2020, @07:01AM
Reading over this crap again. The "right to be greedy" is actually deeper than mere legislation. It covers things like freedom of speech and the rights to a fair trial, which usually are constitutionally mandated in democracies. It covers all rights that enable us to act on our own rather than at the behest of others.
To defend others who say and do the wrong things using these freedoms, or who are massively unpopular (say because they're rich), takes a pretty strong moral character. I hope you one day can develop that character or at least learn to respect it in others.