[SystemSafety] "FAA chief '100% confident' of 737 MAX safety as flights to resume"

[Olwen Morgan]

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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