Boeing may have made some poor decisions but the pressure was coming from the customer who was being pressured by governments, activists, and the general public.
https://nypost.com/2019/10/23/devine-eco-madness-may-be-reason-for-disastrous-boeing-737-max-safety-issues/amp/#aoh=15719516869045&referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&_tf=From%20%251%24s
So Called News; based on a document that can be fact checked.
Boeing Considered System Redesign Before Accidents:
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-indonesia-crash-boeing-ntsb/boeing-considered-system-redesign-before-accidents-ntsb-report-idUSKBN1X41Y5
This article looks and smells like propaganda, judge for yourselves.
IMHO The Spin Doctors are working to prepare the public for Max re-certification.
Re-certification is good, being able to trust Boeing and the FAA would be better.
NTSB Report Press-Releases:
https://www.ntsb.gov/news/press-releases/Pages/NR20190926.aspx
NTSB Report:
https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/AccidentReports/Reports/ASR1901.pdf
Nowhere in the NTSB Report does it state that
Boeing Considered System Redesign Before Accidents
Reuter’s correspondent background of author Jamie Freed
https://influencing.com/au/story/aviation-reporter-jamie-freed-takes-flight-at-reuters
I don't think it exonerates Boeing in any way. But it gives the back story for the rush job. In the end, Boeing should have known better. They chased a competitor and lost because they put the prize and profit above doing it right.
I vote for sinking them
The author of the article cited in the post heading is Miranda Devine
She is a conservative Australian columnist and writer.
Her column appears in the News Limited newspapers Daily Telegraph,
Sunday Telegraph, Melbourne's Sunday Herald Sun and Perth's Sunday Times.
She had also previously worked at a British tabloid, The Sun
The article is also pushed by Google - AKA name your Alphabet Soup Agency.
Somebody in Boeing is digging deep, clear down to Austral,
to find any excuse to find cover any cover for this Monumental Boeing Blunder.
What a disgrace.
Always check your sources.
Solely a Product of McNerney era focus on ruthless cost cutting and short term profit, long term prospects be damned.
Ummmm, No. Boeing F'd up bigtime here with the MAX. They were fat dumb and happy with their tired and played out 53 year old 737 design until the Neo showed up. The MAX was a rush job as as the world now sees. Who knows what will come out next about the MAX ? They should sink them all off the coast as artificial reefs, this way they would do some good and not k–l anymore people.