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by quickthrower2 2634 days ago
While a SW engineer isn’t a code monkey, they are probably the last line in a chain that started with someone saying let’s bolt some oversized engines on this plane, and really even if there is a SWE who spotted the problem and pushed back, the only way to effectively make this software safe is to not need it, I.e design a new plane, and the only way to make that happen is to blow the whistle. So yeah a SWE could have done this but so could anyone involved earlier in the chain.