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This goes back waaaaay further than that. McDonnell Douglas decided to change their business to literally outsource all of the parts to other companies, and just assemble the final product - like they're building iPhones.
When Boeing purchased McDonnell Douglas in 1997, pretty much the entire board of McDD ended up on the board of Boeing, and the existing Boeing board was pushed out. The joke at the time was that McDonnell Douglas bought Boeing with Boeing's money.
When they merged, the McDD philosophy then got applied to Boeing - outsource everything and just assemble the final product. They even did product launches for the 787 with an empty Chassis that had ply-wood components. They no longer designed everything in-house like they did prior, and they opened up East Coast factories in the Carolinas to hire niggers at minimum wage. They also moved the Headquarters from Seattle to Chicago - where they build nothing, so the management weren't even in the same state as the manufacturing - let alone the same building.
The goal was no longer to build the 'best' and 'safest' aircraft, it was to build the cheapest aircraft using the lowest cost vendors. This is the opposite of Airbus who function more like a jobs program with different parts of aircraft built in specialist factories across Europe that only make Airbus parts, with aircraft assembled in Toulouse. They were able to design and build better planes faster than Boeing could.
The 737 Max issue wasn't even because Poos did the code, it was because they had a single pitot tube input, with no redundancy. They knew about this failure point and sold the airplanes anyway. They also charged extra for specific warning lights and gave no ability for Pilots to override the MCAS software. They didn't even tell the pilots that the MCAS software existed.
Boeing is a metaphor for the destruction of the USA.”