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Boeing said the company did not rely on engineers from HCL and Cyient for the Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System, which has been linked to the Lion Air crash last October and the Ethiopian Airlines disaster in March. The Chicago-based planemaker also said it didn’t rely on either firm for another software issue disclosed after the crashes: a cockpit warning light that wasn’t working for most buyers
As if they would admit if they were. Don’t believe their press releases. It’s all politics from now on
Doesn't matter much if they're outsourced or not. They don't pay their US engineers well either. In fact id argue they might actually get better engineers if they pay top of market in a low col area (more likely they just pay bottom dollar there too).
Another way to report this, Boeing 737 MAC failure was the inability to make strategic decisions by Caucasian managers.
And was approved by incompetent American mangers without testing. BAM! Completed it for you.
Americans like to blame immigrants and poor people. This time they went one step further and blamed it on people halfway across the globe.
Completely agree.
$9/hr engineering job is something no highly skilled worker will take. Obviously, anyone from any country working in engineering for $9/hr job, will be a poor quality workforce. In this case, IF IT IS TRUE, it is Boeing reducing the operations cost by outsourcing to cheaper IT firms. They can be in any country. HCL from India happened to be the one in the low lights. But the real one to blame is Boeing who decided to use cheap and low skill labor for life-critical engineering work. In the market, you have all the options from cheap to expensive, low to high skilled, manual to automated labor, etc.
Yup. They could have used $30/hr outsourcing firms in Romania or China. Or set up a separate company in a country with some experience in quality engineering. Outsourcing firms don’t have much ownership.
Fake news