[thtthings]

I know the mistake was very costly and we are talking about lives here. But, come on.. is there a chance people are over analyzing. We can try hard and do everything right and still something can go wrong.

They are humans and the airplanes from Boeing have been very very very reliable. It's not like every max 8 dropped from the air. A lot of them, most of them flew alright. I know the people who lost their lives paid a big price but, in hindsight everyone has an opinion.

[jdavis703]

There was an article about ladders, tools and debris being left inside various parts like the tail. I’m sure management put the workers under extreme deadline pressure, but this kind of negligence isn’t simply a small human mistake. It shows there’s a systematic flaw in their quality assurance capability.

Source: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2019/04/20/busi...

[aaronbrethorst]

In case you want to hear directly from a former Boeing employee on this: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/23/podcasts/the-daily/boeing...

[kelnos]

> We can try hard and do everything right and still something can go wrong.

Except they didn't do that. They did many things wrong, and it sounds like what they tried hard to do was cut costs, rush to production, and get a favorable regulatory/certification outcome via the cheapest route possible.