[foobarian]

And your comment just made me wonder if the two recent Boeing crashes actually mean the IBM hardware is even *more* reliable

[slt2021]

recent scandals with Boeing and United is the result of trump deregulating airlines. https://www.npr.org/2020/12/03/942345240/trump-administratio...

a lot of regulation just became "self-certify" and companies obviously cut costs and outsourced everything including fleet maintenance.

this article is from 2015 - but things got way worse since then https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2015/11/airplane-maintenance...

European airlines and Airbus are flying just fine, it is Americans that have a problem due to over politicized and polarized society and corrupt politicians

[ralph84]

The MAX was certified less than 2 months after Trump took office. He had nothing to do with it.

[Affric]

To Trump's credit he took action against the 737 Max in a timely manner and came out against Boeing as hard as I believe a POTUS could.

[simne]

IBM hardware is reliable, BUT, IBM avoid to go to airspace industry as flight computer supplier.

After Saturn-5, flight computers made by other companies. Its hard to understand, if this is because conservative regulations, or because not enough money for such big company, but fact, that IBM electronics near absent from large civilian airplanes.

[bregma]

Except for the IBM 737 mainframe.