NYT: Boeing Was Certifying Its Own Safety For the 737 Max - Slashdot

NYT: Boeing Was Certifying Its Own Safety For the 737 Max - Slashdot
"Boeing's 737 Max was built with "effectively neutered" oversight, writes the New York Times, citing interviews with over a dozen current and former employees at America's Federal Aviation Agency. 
Their damning conclusion? 
The agency "had never independently assessed the risks of the dangerous software known as MCAS when they approved the plane in 2017."The regulator had been passing off routine tasks to manufacturers for years, with the goal of freeing up specialists to focus on the most important safety concerns. But on the Max, the regulator handed nearly complete control to Boeing, leaving some key agency officials in the dark about important systems like MCAS, according to the current and former employees...The company performed its own assessments of the system, which were not stress-tested by the regulator...
The article ends by describing the days after the first 737 Max crash, when Boeing executives visited the regulatory agency's headquarters in Seattle. 
"The officials sat incredulous as Boeing executives explained details about the system that they didn't know."
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