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If the cited level of incompetence checks out as true then that borders on criminally negligent and some Boeing exec probably needs to go to jail.
by JCM9 3y ago
If the cited level of incompetence checks out as true then that borders on criminally negligent and some Boeing exec probably needs to go to jail.
- rybosworld 3y agoCorporations tend to structure themselves so that those at the very top are never culpable beyond losing their job. And when you've made millions of dollars over the years, losing your job is at most an inconvenience.
- readthenotes1 3y agoHow many went to jail for killing hundreds of people with the max before and covering it up?
- AnimalMuppet 3y agoWhat, specifically, are you referring to when you say "covering it up"?
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- Zigurd 3y agoOne example: David Calhoun told the newspaper that pilots from Indonesia and Ethiopia “don’t have anywhere near the experience that they have here in the US”. He added the planemaker made a “fatal mistake” by assuming those flying the aircraft would immediately counteract software failures, which played a role in both accidents.
- HideousKojima 3y agoThat doesn't sound like "covering up," that sounds like saying "the flight crews should have been skilled enough to compensate for our awful software." Still terrible, mind you, but I'm not seeing a "cover up."
- PedroBatista 3y agoThey already knew what was the problem before and during those crashes. But never admitted anything and deflected any problem until the very last second when it was already so obvious.
- albert180 3y agoThe awful software they intentionally made not redundant so they wouldn't have to retrain and inform the pilots about it, as it would have then be classified as Security Critical (which it obviously was)? Also first blaming bad maintenance then poor training, when they knew they fucked up?
- acdha 3y agoThat’s exactly what a coverup looks like. At that time, they knew they had significant airworthiness issues AND that they had deliberately removed mention of the MCAS system from the training guides in support of their marketing pitch that it’d save the airlines a ton of training costs. Those pilots did what they were trained to do but he lied about it trying to cover up the problems which Boeing had known about years earlier because that would make his company liable.
- alkonaut 3y agoMinimizing the damage (legal and reputational) is of course the job of any executive. What that looks like will vary between business and legal cultures, but that's what it looks like in the US. The way the US law works (as I understand it from popular culture and news) is a good idea to deflect liability as much as possible as any admittance of liability could end up costing.
- jacquesm 3y agoI'd happily bet that that will not happen.