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1884 points elorant | 4 comments | 23 Apr 24 16:43 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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wrs ◴[23 Apr 24 18:15 UTC] No.40135205[source]▶
This sounds an awful lot like the Boeing story, even including the “[engineering] class traitor” running the failing division.
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mulmen ◴[23 Apr 24 19:32 UTC] No.40136201[source]▶
Boeing was put on the path to failure by James McNerney. He was their first non-engineer MBA CEO. A literal Jack Welch apprentice. He divested Spirit and chose to build the MAX instead of the 797.

Dennis Muilenburg was an engineer and handled the MAX crisis poorly but wasn’t responsible for the decision to divest key capabilities from Boeing or to optimize short-term sales over long-term survival by building the MAX instead of a new airliner.

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1. senderista ◴[23 Apr 24 22:03 UTC] No.40137884[source]▶
The MAX was exactly what their customers wanted.
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2. mulmen ◴[23 Apr 24 23:19 UTC] No.40138511[source]▶
Well, no, it isn’t. Nobody wanted a plane that suddenly turns into a lawn dart or falls apart in the air.

The MAX was short term thinking on Boeing’s part. A foolish mistake in the aerospace industry. Boeing was a few years behind Airbus. Now they are a decade behind and tarnished their reputation.

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3. ikrenji ◴[24 Apr 24 05:06 UTC] No.40140789[source]▶
wasn't max a record selling plane? nothing wrong with modernising a 737 variant. plenty wrong with putting MCAS in it which goes haywire when its sole sensor fails
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4. mulmen ◴[24 Apr 24 19:18 UTC] No.40148393{3}[source]▶
What’s wrong with modernizing a 737 is exactly what happened. The design has already been modified to the limit. There is nowhere to go from here. Boeing spent the money to develop the MAX but they still have to develop a new plane to replace it. In the long term it will cost more than just building the plane they actually needed.