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> there are 4 bolts that prevent the mid-exit door plug from sliding up off of the door stop fittings that take the actual pressurization loads in flight, and these 4 bolts were not installed when Boeing delivered the airplane, our own records reflect this.

Yeah. Wtf.




if their best software engineers designed MCAS, gotta wonder at the skill level of the folks designing the internal tooling that does qc checks.


MCAS isn't an issue from a software perspective; it does what it's supposed to do, the issue was that its existence was not communicated to pilots, somewhat intentionally, out of a misplaced assertion that the 737-MAX should not require any additional type rating (i.e. to save money). In other words it was a business management failure.




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