[satellite2]

Yes but do the flight crew have the ability to tell if a plane is safe to fly?

Without a deep understanding of the design of the plane they rely a lot on the metrics that the plane manufacturer display and on the manufacturers manuals to interpret them.

[burnte]

> Yes but do the flight crew have the ability to tell if a plane is safe to fly?

Yes, it's literally part of the job of the pilots, by federal regulation. If the captain feels the flight isn't fit to fly, the captain can say it's a no go, period.

[vkou]

> Yes but do the flight crew have the ability to tell if a plane is safe to fly?

Do you have the ability to tell if a street is safe to cross?

Most of the time, yes.

Sometimes, you can't tell for sure, but you cross anyways.

Sometimes, you are dead wrong about your judgement. Shit happens. Nobody expects 100% certainty.

The problem here may be that Boeing may be falling to meet the expectation of 99.????% certainty, and regressing down to 99.????% certainty, due to a broken corporate culture.