• BeautifulMind ♾️@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    When you have financial engineers overriding the decisions of mechanical engineers, you get crashy airplanes and eventually, caught up murdering people that might talk to investigators in order to defend those juicy profits

    …sort of like how when accountants and insurance folk and lawyers and judges override the decisions of doctors and nurses, you end up with highly profitable hospitals and people dying for it

    …all a bit like when the bean counters run your software company, layoffs designed to boost stock price by showing investors ‘fiscal discipline’ leaves your engineering teams shorthanded and forces them to de-prioritize bug fixes and dealing with technical debt and rigorous testing and you end up shipping lots of bugs when you release your product

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      7 months ago

      Don’t blame accountants. They don’t make any decisions, and they don’t have the technical expertise to know what is dangerous.

      The CEO is a good start. I bet the COO and head of engineering are also at fault. People signed off on these planes without doing the required installation of the door. If it’s a systemic issue, the quality control team is to blame.

      Aviation is a regulated industry, right? I expect the FAA to get to the bottom, if not lawsuits.