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There will be a point in time when CEOs of those airlines in the US that do not ground 737 MAX planes get into a lot of trouble if something happens to one of t
by _Codemonkeyism 8y ago
There will be a point in time when CEOs of those airlines in the US that do not ground 737 MAX planes get into a lot of trouble if something happens to one of their planes. Then they play with jail time instead of payments to victim relatives.
- ComputerGuru 8y agoNo, there won't. It's not a CEO's job to make kind of call because they're not expected to have that kind of insight into such technical safety matters. Their job is to run the company based off of what the experts tell them; the FAA is literally absolving companies of having to make the decision and shoulder the burden themselves.
- _Codemonkeyism 8y agoYes it is, the same way a CEO is responsible if the systems of the company are hacked and millions of emails and passwords are lost. They do what security experts tell them. Equifax for sure had lots of experts. Or Sony for that matter. There is a point when a court will decide that "you should have known" and the "expert" defense will not work. It's funny on HN, if it's security the CEO should go to jail for listening to experts, if it's Boeing - one of the holy cows beside Tesla - it's "follow expert advice". I bet $100 if an US 737 MAX crashes the CEO will go to jail.
- ComputerGuru 8y agoIt's the difference between there being a regulatory agency that oversees these decisions and it not existing.
- ComputerGuru 8y agoAlso, you seem to be replying under the impression that I'm talking about the Boeing CEO. I'm not. That comment was about CEOs of airlines not having to make the decision to ground or not to ground their fleet.