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by tomxor 1989 days ago
I agree it probably would have been less expensive, but I'm not sold on the company necessarily believing that at the time.

> There is no way a recall coordinator with a global view of the company's welfare in mind would have made the decision to go forward.

When the information about the sensors and software first emerged everyone was saying there was no way any one engineer would have not spoken up about it... It was later relieved they outsourced the software development to $9/hr engineers. It wouldn't be surprising if their "recall coordinator" did not speak up for one reason or another.

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Those $9 an hour engineers did not work on MCAS. They worked on one of the MFD's (Multi-Function Displays).