Published in DAWN on July 01, 2025
THIS is with
reference to the editorial ‘Air India tragedy’ (June 15) which stated that
Boeing had reached an agreement with the United States Justice Department to
pay $1.1bn to avoid prosecution for the two widely reported 737-MAX crashes.
Boeing has a history of trying to cut costs, and for this purpose it outsourced
to Indian engineers the development of its 737-MAX planes, paying them only
nine dollars an hour because their American engineers would have charged $35-40
an hour, as reported by IndustryWeek, which quoted Mark Rabin, a former
software engineer.
Rabin, while talking about
Indian engineers’ lack of competence, said: “The coders … were typically
designing to specifications set by Boeing. Still, it was controversial because
it was far less efficient than Boeing engineers just writing the code. Frequently,
it took many rounds going back and forth because the code was not done
correctly.”
Also, an Indian company,
Hindustan Computers Ltd (HCL), played a major role in the development of the 787
Dreamliners, one of which crashed recently less than a minute after take-off
from Ahmedabad.
The teams investigating the
crash should seriously consider all the relevant background while looking into
the incident.
Shakir Lakhani
Karachi
https://www.dawn.com/news/1921317/dangerous-option
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