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I assume Boeing's response to this criminal inquiry will be a stock buyback.
How else will their stock price go up amidst all this controversy lol.
Accountability should be held at the top. If they can benefit from cost cutting that can potentially kill people through negligence, they need to face criminal consequences for doing so.
Not potentially.
MCAS did kill several hundred people just a few years ago.
A system Boeing put in place and snuck past regulators specifically to deploy a cheaply developed product that could compete with airbus.
The executives at Boeing already have blood on their hands. They should have faced manslaughter charges for the 2 flights that went down due to MCAS.
Only after they lay off the subcontracted QA department
Increase their lobbying budget too
Oh Mr Oliver, thank you for imparting your wisdom.
Sadly nothing Boeing has done is criminal in the US even though it absolutely should be. It's just the bog standard corporate pursuit of profit at the expense of all else. Cutting corners, ignoring safety, rushing everything, and all with fewer people to do the work than are necessary. If Boeing is found criminally guilty for that half the corporations in the US are in trouble.
No, this is just political theater, much like the TSA is. Boeing has fucked up enough that people are starting to take notice, so this is just a little reminder to them that they need to stop fucking up quite so publicly. The executives will sweat a little, temporarily improve things, and then go right back to their usual bullshit in a year or two when things calm down. Worst case scenario they'll put out a series of BP style "We're sorry" videos where they emphasize how much quality and safety supposedly mean to them.
Sadly nothing Boeing has done is criminal in the US even though it absolutely should be.
I doubt that you know whether Boeing has or has not broken any laws.
The FAA and the DOJ are not the same as TSA. Not at all.
Slap on the wrist incoming
Yeah thats about the extent of consequences for American corps.
The CEO of Boeing is running for president!
Can't be sued right now, he's running for president....20 years later... still running for president....
Slap on the wrist? More likely they'll get the Federal Legislature to send in another multi-billion dollar bail-out.
Somehow I doubt American Ju$tice will jail the executive who went laughing all the way to bank with the bonuses they made from cutting corners in design, manufacturing and QA, cutting costs down to the bone and using Boeing employees acting as in-house FAA "representatives" to self-certify the pieces of junk Boeing now makes.
(As somebody else pointed out, the deaths attributable to such practices, namelly in the MCAS debacle, should've been treated as manslaughter).
Its a functional state-financed monopoly that isn't owned or operated by the state and gets to charge taxpayers an absurd markup per unit by passing every expenditure through half a dozen shell companies that each get to squeeze out profit on the margins.
But hey, we get the latest in aviation technology, right? Not like they're just churning out lemons that fall apart in midair.
I'm making four flights soon with the Boeing 737 Max 8. I'm sure the software is probably all updated and debugged properly.
I also took an iPad course.
It's never too late to write your will. Just don't take it with you, leave it with a close reltive.
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Boeing assures you everything is properly debugged. Only known issues is that the engines could explode if the anti-icing is accidentally turned on, but the pilots have got a foolproof plan to avoid killing everyone with the flip of a switch:
Trust me bro.
The likelihood that there will be anything wrong with your flights is minuscule. A hundred thousand planes fly around the Earth every single day and they almost never have any issues.
Just flew on two flights both 737 Max 8.
I figure after a disaster there is more scrutiny, so these could be the safest planes to fly on right now.
Well after the first disaster the side fell off of a a second plane, so I'm not sure I'd risk it.
I figure after a disaster there is more scrutiny
I thought that half a dozen accidents ago. Now I'm a bit less confident.
Rosie the riveter is getting old and can't keep up with the assembly speed...
2 years jail for Rocie for riveting slowly
2 weeks community service for the CEO who required managers to push Rocie faster
I'm a manager, so I'm pretty sure we're blameless lol.
I wonder if John Oliver had anything to do with it by bringing attention.
Nah, the door blowing off the airplane was world news. The 2 Boeing crashes a handful of years ago were world news. It's a massive American company. The writing has been on the wall for a while.
Ummm, it's a long going story which John reported quite late actually
There was a documentary about Boeing that was very detailed and it was largely ignored. Oliver's platform helped get the problem the attention it deserved.
Well you can trust them, kuf, kuf...
Boeing 777 weel fall off:
https://youtu.be/BeGo79nRMwU?si=S_9Of9EJyhTNhSrY
Boeing 737 Max 8 leanding gear colapse: