I have not worked for Boeing. I can speak from significant relevant experience elsewhere and I can confidently say this is an excellent documentary that hit nearly every right note. If there's something missing from this documentary, it's the engineering authorities who signed off on the design. I'd also add that if the CEO contributed to the deaths of people, the CEO should have been prosecuted and if found guilty, imprisoned. This is fundamental as it ensures that accountability is maintained and reckless risks are not taken.
Humanity aims for higher heights by challenging boundaries and taking risks. The people challenging boundaries can be skilled people, incompetent people or corrupt people. You need money and skill to challenge these boundaries and Boeing appears to have been a financially weakened company that took risks to survive. It certainly had competency for a long time. The difficulty in restoring that competency should not be underestimated. The person restoring Boeing would have a significant task ahead of them.
Management select people for their compliance - that's a fact. However, if the management can be put behind bars as easily as the engineering authority who signs off on such a design ... then all leaders have the same risk and consequence to share. For some reason, this risk sharing did not appear to happen. The documentary did not say this and it should have.
The aircraft manufacturing industry is a safety critical industry, meaning that people's live(s) are at risk and the risk in aviation is extremely high. However, there is a MUCH bigger, recent problem across the entire aircraft manufacturing and broader aviation industry. The first problem is that the aircraft manufacturing industry is tightly coupled to government and the government place absolute constraints on the industry. I won't comment on the second problem ... but the problem is directly tied to legislation. Every time you hop on an aircraft, remember that the safety of the aircraft has been compromised by government legislation in the last decade or so. I personally consider this risk to be mind-blowingly huge.
If you're thinking about working in the aircraft manufacturing industry: I strongly recommend you think twice. Any industry that has such a high risk for its technical employees and the industry is subject to the whims of government that compromise safety ... that industry is best avoided. The industry has lost many good people in recent years because of these changes in legislation that occurred around a decade ago. The culture that has been created in the last decade or so is far more damaging than most people realise. I personally, consider it a ticking time-bomb. This particular problem straddles western countries and especially so in English speaking countries. It snowballed about a decade ago.
This documentary was excellent. The problem wasn't just the "single point of failure" on a safety critical system on the aircraft that should never have been allowed in the first place. The problem is always a series of failures that usually include intimidation and harassment of staff and a blatant disregard for safety. The common factor that allowed all of this was the lack of accountability for the CEO. Non-technical management focus on profits, however, they must have accountability equal to that of engineering authorities.
I recommend anyone who is game enough to go into the aircraft manufacturing industry, especially in engineering, manufacturing or quality assurance, should watch this video. I consider this documentary more beneficial than Mayday (also known as Air Crash Investigation) as it taps into the problem much more honestly and transparently.
Generally speaking, I can not fault this documentary. It appears to be matter of fact and well balanced. It hits almost every point.
Humanity aims for higher heights by challenging boundaries and taking risks. The people challenging boundaries can be skilled people, incompetent people or corrupt people. You need money and skill to challenge these boundaries and Boeing appears to have been a financially weakened company that took risks to survive. It certainly had competency for a long time. The difficulty in restoring that competency should not be underestimated. The person restoring Boeing would have a significant task ahead of them.
Management select people for their compliance - that's a fact. However, if the management can be put behind bars as easily as the engineering authority who signs off on such a design ... then all leaders have the same risk and consequence to share. For some reason, this risk sharing did not appear to happen. The documentary did not say this and it should have.
The aircraft manufacturing industry is a safety critical industry, meaning that people's live(s) are at risk and the risk in aviation is extremely high. However, there is a MUCH bigger, recent problem across the entire aircraft manufacturing and broader aviation industry. The first problem is that the aircraft manufacturing industry is tightly coupled to government and the government place absolute constraints on the industry. I won't comment on the second problem ... but the problem is directly tied to legislation. Every time you hop on an aircraft, remember that the safety of the aircraft has been compromised by government legislation in the last decade or so. I personally consider this risk to be mind-blowingly huge.
If you're thinking about working in the aircraft manufacturing industry: I strongly recommend you think twice. Any industry that has such a high risk for its technical employees and the industry is subject to the whims of government that compromise safety ... that industry is best avoided. The industry has lost many good people in recent years because of these changes in legislation that occurred around a decade ago. The culture that has been created in the last decade or so is far more damaging than most people realise. I personally, consider it a ticking time-bomb. This particular problem straddles western countries and especially so in English speaking countries. It snowballed about a decade ago.
This documentary was excellent. The problem wasn't just the "single point of failure" on a safety critical system on the aircraft that should never have been allowed in the first place. The problem is always a series of failures that usually include intimidation and harassment of staff and a blatant disregard for safety. The common factor that allowed all of this was the lack of accountability for the CEO. Non-technical management focus on profits, however, they must have accountability equal to that of engineering authorities.
I recommend anyone who is game enough to go into the aircraft manufacturing industry, especially in engineering, manufacturing or quality assurance, should watch this video. I consider this documentary more beneficial than Mayday (also known as Air Crash Investigation) as it taps into the problem much more honestly and transparently.
Generally speaking, I can not fault this documentary. It appears to be matter of fact and well balanced. It hits almost every point.