[SystemSafety] "FAA chief '100% confident' of 737 MAX safety as flights to resume"
Olwen Morgan
olwen at phaedsys.com
Fri Nov 20 15:09:36 CET 2020
On 20/11/2020 13:26, Michael Holloway wrote:
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> Second, it is irresponsible moralizing to claim that making such a
> statement is irresponsible, inappropriate, technically indefensible,
> misleading, or any of the other bad things attributed to it. If the
> statement had been written in a technical paper, without any
> qualifiers explaining "100% confident" was being used in the
> colloquial sense, then criticism would be warranted. It wasn't.
As I said in a considered technical opinion offered to an FAA employee
at a conference in November last year, "Bullsh!t". If I want
computer-moderated aerodynamic instability, I'll fly in an Su-35. What
the 737 MAX needs isn't revamped systems but a new airframe design.
Period.
Olwen
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