FAA employees say that the FAA skipped independent review of the Boeing 737 MAX computerized flight control system, trusting Boeing engineers instead, and that this disregarded a fatal flaw.

The pressure to "get it working now" by disregarding safety concerns reminds me of the explosion of the Space Shuttle Challenger. In the Challenger case, the pressure was for the sake of NASA's success. In this case, the pressure was for Boeing's success in competition. We can see it as a form of regulatory capture.