Well, we don't know if they did. We do know that Boeing employees (including one of the whistleblowers) have attempted to raise such issues internally for a long time, but mostly went ignored, moved to a department where they can't complain, or fired.
So purely on the power differential, a $9 engineer wouldn't make a stink. Says nothing about their work ethic or ability to see disaster (at least upon integrating code, probably not literal disaster) coming.
And also, how would they have known they're just using one AOA input, and a component above them isn't already delivering a value that's known good - these are not the kind of engineers that'd know that.
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Well, we don't know if they did. We do know that Boeing employees (including one of the whistleblowers) have attempted to raise such issues internally for a long time, but mostly went ignored, moved to a department where they can't complain, or fired.
So purely on the power differential, a $9 engineer wouldn't make a stink. Says nothing about their work ethic or ability to see disaster (at least upon integrating code, probably not literal disaster) coming.
And also, how would they have known they're just using one AOA input, and a component above them isn't already delivering a value that's known good - these are not the kind of engineers that'd know that.