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“This Plane Was Designed By Clowns, Who Are Supervised By Monkeys” – Shocking Boeing Emails Reveal Contempt For Management, FAA, by Tyler Durden

Posted on January 10, 2020 | 1 comment

Anyone who thinks regulators operate in some amorphous “public interest” and are not captured by the industries they regulate shouldn’t be allowed to operate heavy machinery or drive. From Tyler Durden at zerohedge.com:

We have never heard a more damning description of the relationship between a corporation and its regulators than a line that has been plucked from a batch of company emails that Boeing has just handed over to the FAA (and which the FAA has, apparently, leaked to the press).

Per the New York Times:

“This airplane is designed by clowns, who are in turn supervised by monkeys…”

In recent weeks, a series of reports claiming Boeing neglected to turn over critical information to the FAA regarding the development of the 737 MAX 8, Boeing’s new “workhorse” model that has been grounded around the world for the last 10 months, after a pair of suspicious crashes raised suspicions of possible flaws in the plane’s anti-stall software.

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The 737 MAX Saga Is a Total Disgrace for Boeing and the FAA, by Michael Krieger

Posted on March 20, 2019 | Leave a comment

Many have caught on to the FAA’s regulatory capture by the world’s largest aircraft manufacturer. The FAA is just one of many alphabet agencies that have been captured. From Michael Krieger at libertyblitzkrieg.com:

The Worship of Mammon by Evelyn De Morgan.

One of the first things to become apparent as I began reading about the deadly crash of Ethiopian Airlines’ Boeing 737 MAX 8 plane on March 10th, was the fact that nobody seemed to trust U.S. authorities.

As Fortune noted:

Ethiopia’s aviation authority is unable to read the black box recorders from the Boeing 737 Max plane that crashed Sunday, but a row is brewing over just where the flight recorders will be sent for analysis.

The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board is pushing to have its experts analyze the data and voice recorders, which were partly damaged, the Wall Street Journal reports, but Ethiopian authorities would prefer to work with the U.K.’s Air Accidents Investigation Branch to ensure that U.S. experts won’t have undue influence in the probe of the American-made plane.

At the same time, pretty much the entire world had started to ground 737 MAX planes as this was the second time this model had crashed within the span of five months. By early last week, Canada and the U.S. had become increasingly isolated in insisting the planes were safe to fly, and then Canada folded too.

This represented a huge rebuke to the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), which continued to defend the aircraft until the very last moment. In a ridiculous stunt, Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao even rode in a 737 MAX two days after the latest crash.

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They Said That? 11/24/14

Posted on November 24, 2014 | 2 comments

From the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA):

In a statement, the FAA said it is working to “integrate unmanned aircraft into the busiest, most complex airspace system in the world—and to do so while we maintain our mission—protecting the safety of the American people in the air and on the ground. That is why we are taking a staged approach to the integration of these new airspace users.”

The Wall Street Journal, “Drone Flights Face FAA Hit,” 11/24/14

“Staged approach” is a euphemism for taking six years and counting to promulgate the regulations that will supposedly provide the foundation for the commercial use of drones. It won’t be much of a foundation. According to the story, the rules will apply to all drones weighing less than 55 pounds. Their flights will be limited to daylight hours, will be required to remain below 400 feet and within sight of the operator, who must be a certified pilot of manned aircraft. In other words, the regulations will kill a nascent industry before it ever gets off the ground. Canada, on the other hand, will issue a blanket approval this month of all drones weighing less than 4.4 pounds “as long as they comply with certain safety standards, such as altitude limits and no-fly zones around airports.” First Keystone and now this—the country that powered the Industrial Revolution now waits on bureaucrats and politicians to decide the fates of businesses and entire industries.

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