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The investigation is tied to an incident on an Alaska Airlines flight in early January. Boeing also told a Senate panel that it cannot find a record of the work done on the Alaska plane.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I wonder if John Oliver had anything to do with it by bringing attention.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

I suspect the explosive decompression caused by one of the doors flying off a plane mid-air might have been more directly responsible than the rapidly downsizing streaming service comedy show that decided to make a few jokes about it.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm making four flights soon with the Boeing 737 Max 8. I'm sure the software is probably all updated and debugged properly.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

I figure after a disaster there is more scrutiny

I thought that half a dozen accidents ago. Now I'm a bit less confident.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Slap on the wrist incoming

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Slap on the wrist? More likely they'll get the Federal Legislature to send in another multi-billion dollar bail-out.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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).

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

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.