a pilot had been asked to sign one certification document “clearly based on a lie.” There had been audio problems with the devices, software glitches, old data, leaking air lines. In instant messages, the employees commiserated over Boeing’s cost-motivated decision to award the simulator contract to the low bidder, a unit of Textron called Tru Simulation + Training based in Goose Creek, South Carolina. “I’ll be shocked if the FAA passes this turd,” one wrote in a message later turned over to congressional investigators.
