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Boeing waited until after Lion Air crash to tell Southwest safety alert was off

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Re: Boeing waited until after Lion Air crash to tell Southwest safety alert was off

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Wow, I'd be surprised if some young congressperson doesn't make their career by publicly eviscerating Boeing soon.

I'm thinking of a particular congresswoman that almost certainly isn't going to do it because she'd lose the vote of pretty much every blue collar worker that aspires to have a stable job somewhere like Boeing. It's not an obvious political win.

Edit: Ah, the good ol' "reality makes me unhappy so I'll shoot the messenger" down-votes. I don't know why I even comment in any of the Boeing threads anymore.

Re: Boeing waited until after Lion Air crash to tell Southwest safety alert was off

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As I commented in previous articles here on HN, the chance that there are other subsystems that were rushed and self-approved by Boeing is not zero, people thinking that fixing the MCAS is enough are forgetting to consider that other components had to be updated for the new design.

Re: Boeing waited until after Lion Air crash to tell Southwest safety alert was off

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Wow, I'd be surprised if some young congressperson doesn't make their career by publicly eviscerating Boeing soon.

I hope you don't think it's going to be a US congresscritter. "Why do you hate American jobs!"

Boeing as a whole might not be "evil", the same way VW as a whole is not "evil". So going after the whole of Boeing may not be the right thing.

At the same time, some high-up people in VW are paying for the emissions-cheating scandal, which arguably could endanger human beings and the environment.

When are people in Boeing going to pay for actually contributing to the deaths caused by this scandal?

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