[genghisjahn]

I’m guessing that manufacturers know of lots of flaws in the parts they make.

[potato3732842]

You can't in good conscience advertise a complex assembly as fit for some purpose without knowing how close the component widgets are to their various modes of failure.

[autoexec]

Hopefully they don't usually downplay the risks of dangerous known flaws in critical parts like Boeing seems to have done in this case.

[rootusrootus]

Is that your professional assessment as an aerospace engineer, or as a software engineer?

[hsbauauvhabzb]

They learn pretty quickly to downplay things when their whistleblower collegese either fall down the stairs or kill themselves after telling loved ones that if they die it was not by their own hands.