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.

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.

  • Aceticon@lemmy.world
    34·
    8 months ago

    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).

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
      81·
      8 months 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.

    • Maggoty@lemmy.world
      2·
      8 months ago

      Not even. They knew MCAS was unrecoverable. Their test pilots told them this and the government has the documents. They released it anyway and lied about it. That’s not, “oops”, that’s malice and forethought.