Wanton criminal behavior on Boeing’s part. Every callous, greedy executive who was aware of this should be jailed.
For 70 years, Boeing has had a reputation for building the highest-quality aircraft. They’ve managed to trash that in just a few years. And, if the company survives, it will find that it is going to take decades to get the reputation back.
Also too, that wasn’t Hans Delbruck’s brain was it?
Dig deeper into Boeing’s relationship with the WH/Trump, maybe there’s something fishy.
Intentionally making the planes less safe. I hope Boeing is sued not only by the victims and families but by the purchasers for fraud etc. The government should go after them with every available tool and those who made these decisions - and took any other felonious shortcuts - should be held criminally liable, up to and including manslaughter. And what the hell was the FAA doing in terms of certification of this model?
Let’s hear it for Trumpian self-regulation. People died.
I have flown my daughters repeatedly on Southwest Airlines. It horrifies me to think I bought them tickets on an airline that might have been using these planes. Boeing executives need to go to jail.
It takes years to build a reputation, only seconds to destroy it.
This will be a very long road back. They should start by just scrapping the MAX and doing a new version properly.
It will take years and be expensive, but probably less than continuing to build a plane that has a multitude of issues due to rushed deadlines and cutting corners.
Can someone tell me why the Dennis Muilenburg still has a job and isn’t under indictment for criminally negligent homicide?
Yeah, I’m sure Trumps DOJ is going to get right on it. Right after they deal with arresting Hillary.
Sure, they might not have told the FAA, but… did the FAA even ASK?
Just kidding. This is scary.
Most of Southwest aircraft are 737 of the NG series, those have a very good safety record. It’s only teh currently grounded MAX series the ones with the problem.
If the heads of Boeing had any integrity whatsoever, they would all be resigning. Instead, they are happy to continue to draw fat paychecks, fully insulated from a world where people take responsibility. Kurt Vonnegut wrote about these people, who are led to drink from the money river, who take a select few and let them drink from it, too. This matter of the 737Max reveals the corruption of how such corporations operate today.
Should probably include James McNerney, the previous CEO (2005-2015), under that indictment too. Planes take a decade (or more, see the 787) to design, build and deliver. Its likely the majority of the decisions on the 737 Max happened under his watch.
This is CRIMINAL!!!
Boeing OWES AMERICANS better than this!!!
LOCK UP Boeing execs!!!
But …but …the stock price …
Boeing Increases CEO’s Pay 27% to $23.4 Million for Last Year
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-03-15/boeing-increases-ceo-s-pay-27-to-23-4-million-for-last-year
This explains the sudden burst of Southwest Air commercials.
Also, too, Boeing woulda told them, butcept they didn’t ask.
They did a flawed cost analysis
Number of deaths and lawsuits vs cost of changes
They thought they were on easy street
Turns out, when planes fall out of the sky , people notice and it’s not good for business
As the BTO song goes… B-b-b-baby, you just ain’t seen n-n-nothin’ yet:
Kimberly Kindy, at the Washington Post, has a great, in-depth report on a new proposal from the Trump administration regarding pork inspections. The overall thrust is to put more safety controls in the hands of the plants themselves—whose interest is profit, thus speed and efficiency—rather than regulatory agencies like the USDA.
The proposal would cut the number of federal pork inspectors by a whopping 40 percent, replacing them with plant employees. Those people, Kindy reports, would be trained by the plants themselves. In addition, the proposal would eliminate line speeds—the number of hogs per hour that can be processed—meaning that each hog would, necessarily, be given quite a bit less scrutiny, and also could lead to more workplace injuries in an already dangerous industry.
First sign of trouble, the farmers will pay the price with pork prices falling.
They’re not happy.