>A 100-year old company with 150,000 direct employees, responsible for the safe transportation of countless millions every day, all day long, year after year—as

>A 100-year old company with 150,000 direct employees, responsible for the safe transportation of countless millions every day, all day long, year after year—as well as being one of the largest military contractors responsible for everything from ICBMs to space flight—and a single questionable design decision for a single passenger aircraft has people calling for their ultimate demise. This is part of the problem. Boeing needs to be broken up. They should have never been allowed to merge with McDonnell Douglas, and their civil aviation unit should be a separate entity from their government contracting business.