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> This is largely due to how inexperienced the FAA is with the manufacturing process and thus rely on the industry to self-regulate.

How does the FAA get experience manufacturing planes without manufacturing planes?

I'm not sure the people building the planes are the problem.

I'm pretty sure its the management trying to spend less money to build planes that's the problem

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> How does the FAA get experience manufacturing planes without manufacturing planes?

By hiring people who have worked in plane manufacturing.

Exactly. The difference between a Boeing employee doing “regulating” versus an ex-Boeing employee who now works for the FAA doing the regulating is significant.

And then few years later we find out that the FAA employee is offered a 3/4 times higher pay in the company again..

Just like wall street executives getting in politics to regulate banking and then go back to highly paid positions or are paid millions in consulting fees for doing few speeches an hear.

Anyway I know that FAA investigators aren't necessarily from the industry (they are engineers in the field and can investigate the matters anyway), but I know little about regulators.

We can talk about management cutting corners and enforcing a culture all day long, and they should be prosecuted for their negligence... but that doesn't absolve the idiots that forgot to put the bolts in or the other idiots that can't drill a hole properly.

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