Boeing, the FAA, and the airlines have demonstrated that they can't be trusted to make the right decision when passenger safety conflicts with quarterly earnings per share.
They'll roll the dice and hope they can fix the problem, as cheaply as possible, before the next catastrophe.
So it doesn't matter if they find an engineering fix.
The public will never trust that it's really fixed, and re-branding this dud won't fool anybody.
The sooner Boeing figures this out, the less money they'll lose.
This is why Boeing never should have been allowed to self certify. Decisions about Matters of safety should have been given to people who didn’t have to weigh it against earnings per share.
It's no longer an engineering problem.
Now it's a trust problem.
Boeing, the FAA, and the airlines have demonstrated that they can't be trusted to make the right decision when passenger safety conflicts with quarterly earnings per share.
They'll roll the dice and hope they can fix the problem, as cheaply as possible, before the next catastrophe.
So it doesn't matter if they find an engineering fix.
The public will never trust that it's really fixed, and re-branding this dud won't fool anybody.
The sooner Boeing figures this out, the less money they'll lose.