Re: Just wondering
The problem with MAX's is that Boeing was allowed to determine whether they could reuse the type certification from the -700/800/900 model series.
The job is with the FAA. Unfortunately, a lot of FAA "staff" are not really FAA staff. A lot of Boeing certification are made by Boeing staff seconded to work at FAA. So the FAA certification are handled by Boeing staff. It is not really "ideal" but trying to maintain talent is getting more and more difficult with an always-shrinking budget.
The issue with the Boeing MAX was that Boeing knowing & deliberately kept key documents away from the FAA so the MAX can be re-certified quicker (two- to three years faster). FAA was keen to "rubber stamp" the MAX.
This would have also required that pilots operating the MAX series to have received a new round of training that would have included awareness of the MCAS system and troubleshooting issues with it.
Read this: Boeing Was ‘Go, Go, Go’ to Beat Airbus With the 737 Max. This explains why Boeing did what they did: Boeing needed to bring MAX out NOW (and not 3- or 4 years later) in order to compete with the NEO. This means Boeing had to cut a lot of corners (which resulted in death).
But y'know what is sad about this? No one goes to jail.
So much for America's much vaunted "do the crime, do the time".
NOTE: U.S. FAA revokes certification of Xtra Aerospace after Lion Air crash
Biting the hand that feeds IT
