<story><title>Boeing&apos;s Crashes Expose Systemic Failings</title><url>https://www.spiegel.de/international/business/737-max-boeing-s-crashes-expose-systemic-failings-a-1282869.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>FabHK</author><text>&amp;gt; What&amp;#x27;s more, over the course of his 55 years in the profession, he [lawyer Marc Moller] [has] learned that every plane crash can be traced back to a single, simple cause.&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t know, that strikes me as nonsense. It&amp;#x27;s precisely the interplay of many factors that lead to an accident - and if any one of them had been different, the outcome might have been different. See Reason&amp;#x27;s &amp;quot;swiss cheese&amp;quot; model of accidents - all the holes have to line up [1].&lt;p&gt;How you can go and designate one of these holes &lt;i&gt;the&lt;/i&gt; hole, the &amp;quot;single, simple cause&amp;quot; is beyond me. This doesn&amp;#x27;t do the complexity of engineering justice. Might help to win cases with juries, but I don&amp;#x27;t see how it could help to make flying safer.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Swiss_cheese_model&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Swiss_cheese_model&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Boeing&apos;s Crashes Expose Systemic Failings</title><url>https://www.spiegel.de/international/business/737-max-boeing-s-crashes-expose-systemic-failings-a-1282869.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nness</author><text>&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;Bickeböller&amp;#x27;s complaint endangered the planned inauguration of the 787, which had already been delayed due to technical difficulties. The problems identified by the engineer, however, weren&amp;#x27;t addressed by Boeing, which is why he turned to EASA in June. [...] In those papers, it states that management and top executives at Boeing had ordered that the coordination problems with the company&amp;#x27;s suppliers be &amp;quot;closed.&amp;quot; The reason: &amp;quot;to get the 787 production certificate.&amp;quot;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;I, for one, hope this plane never flies again.</text></comment>