<story><title>FAA safety engineer goes public to slam agency’s oversight of Boeing’s 737 Max</title><url>https://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/faa-safety-engineer-goes-public-to-slam-the-agencys-oversight-of-boeings-737-max/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Zevis</author><text>&amp;gt; Michael Teal, 737 MAX chief engineer, testified to Congress that he first learned only after the Lion Air crash that MCAS relied on a single sensor&lt;p&gt;Uh, what. How does something like this even happen?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rurban</author><text>That cannot be. It was widely reported that the complete South Western Airlines MAX fleet insisted on the second sensor being installed. And so they did. They bypassed the FAA rubber-stamp approval.
The FAA not knowing about this is not plausible. Everybody knew that. It was a major criticism on the FAA ability to control air safety.</text></comment>
<story><title>FAA safety engineer goes public to slam agency’s oversight of Boeing’s 737 Max</title><url>https://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/faa-safety-engineer-goes-public-to-slam-the-agencys-oversight-of-boeings-737-max/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Zevis</author><text>&amp;gt; Michael Teal, 737 MAX chief engineer, testified to Congress that he first learned only after the Lion Air crash that MCAS relied on a single sensor&lt;p&gt;Uh, what. How does something like this even happen?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>temac</author><text>If he really is the chief engineer and that has any meaning, for ex if he signed off the design, should he not maybe be jailed for his failure to know what he signed?</text></comment>