much of the software on the crashed Boeing MAX had been engineered by recent grads of Indian software-coding academies making as little as $9 an hour.
Why was the ugly software hack there? Boeing put it in because the fuel-saving engines did not fit the older plane frame, making the machine prone to stalling. Fixing it in software in a way that would not require pilot re-training, due to key customer demands, meant the catastrophic automatic nosedive was undocumented, and hidden from pilots.
Does saving money on safety pay? Yes.
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