Boeing CEO loses chairman title

On Sat, 12 Oct 2019 13:40:29 -0500, Mitchell Holman
wrote:


In the meantime the "software glitch" that has
not been found after months of search is keeping
hundreds of planes idled and hundreds more stalled
in production.

Which probably means it's more than just a glitch, but something that
requires a very extensive and expensive mod, which Boeing will have to
pay.

R2D2 wrote in :

On Sat, 12 Oct 2019 13:40:29 -0500, Mitchell Holman
wrote:


In the meantime the "software glitch" that has
not been found after months of search is keeping
hundreds of planes idled and hundreds more stalled
in production.

Which probably means it's more than just a glitch, but something that
requires a very extensive and expensive mod, which Boeing will have to
pay.


9 months is a long time to repair any
computer problem, esp. when airlines
are cancelling orders on a weekly basis.

On Sat, 12 Oct 2019 20:33:05 -0500, Mitchell Holman
wrote:

R2D2 wrote in :

On Sat, 12 Oct 2019 13:40:29 -0500, Mitchell Holman
wrote:


In the meantime the "software glitch" that has
not been found after months of search is keeping
hundreds of planes idled and hundreds more stalled
in production.

Which probably means it's more than just a glitch, but something that
requires a very extensive and expensive mod, which Boeing will have to
pay.


9 months is a long time to repair any
computer problem, esp. when airlines
are cancelling orders on a weekly basis.



Depends on the problem and how/what people they have on the job. Some
problems can be so fraking stupid or hard, it would be best to simple
erase and start over. But THAT decision requites a lot of
administrative courage...

R2D2 wrote in :

On Sat, 12 Oct 2019 20:33:05 -0500, Mitchell Holman
wrote:

R2D2 wrote in :

On Sat, 12 Oct 2019 13:40:29 -0500, Mitchell Holman
wrote:


In the meantime the "software glitch" that has
not been found after months of search is keeping
hundreds of planes idled and hundreds more stalled
in production.

Which probably means it's more than just a glitch, but something that
requires a very extensive and expensive mod, which Boeing will have to
pay.


9 months is a long time to repair any
computer problem, esp. when airlines
are cancelling orders on a weekly basis.



Depends on the problem and how/what people they have on the job. Some
problems can be so fraking stupid or hard, it would be best to simple
erase and start over. But THAT decision requites a lot of
administrative courage...


Billions of dollars in sales being lost
should be all the courage needed to rip out
the current computers and install one that
work in their other models.

On Mon, 14 Oct 2019 20:45:58 -0500, Mitchell Holman
wrote:




Billions of dollars in sales being lost
should be all the courage needed to rip out
the current computers and install one that
work in their other models.


It's not a hardware problem (which isn't that hard to fix), it's a
software problem (which is an utter bitch to fix). The aircraftt was
altered from theother models in ways that made new software necessary.
But I guess they messed up the testing. And then covered it up.