NewsVine_Mariyam
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From what I've read and what has been disclosed in the Netflix documentary "Downfall: The Case Against Boeing", Boeing's leadership (not it's diversity hires) made a conscious decision to cut corners at the expensive of passenger safety when instead of creating a new aircraft in its race to get to market before its competitor Airbus it instead took it's bread & butter, the industry workhorse, the 737 and modified it to create the 737 MAX.Is this symptomatic of a more general decline in standards from those forming part of the industrial and military complex or associated with it ?
Look at USeLess weapons used in Ukraine .
Bradleys , Abram Tanks , Patriot systems , HIMARS .
With F16s reckoned a certainty to maintain the failure trend by experts, if they ever start to fly in the war zone
While the concept of utilizing something that was already in production instead of completely starting from scratch may be acceptable, it's how they attempted to create the "new aircraft" that caused the issue. Because they wanted the MAX to have longer range and accommodate more passengers, they put larger engines on the wings but had to higher and further forward which caused a problem with the aircraft's CG (center of gravity).
The Boeing 737 MAX 8 has larger and heavier engines than its predecessor, the 737 NG. These engines are mounted higher and further forward on the wings, which changes the center of gravity of the aircraft 123. The new engines generate more lift, which causes the nose of the plane to pitch up during takeoff 12. To counteract this, Boeing added a new software system called the Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System (MCAS) to the 737 MAX 8 1. However, the MCAS system was found to be faulty and was responsible for two fatal crashes in 2018 and 2019 4. The MCAS system was designed to automatically push the nose of the plane down if it detected that the plane was pitching up too much 1. However, in both crashes, the MCAS system was triggered by faulty sensors and pushed the nose of the plane down repeatedly, causing the planes to crash.