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Alaska Airlines Grounds Fleet of Boeing 737 Max 9 Jets After Midair ‘Incident’ (www.nytimes.com)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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And here we go again, another bOING 737 Max.

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[–] [email protected] 124 points 11 months ago (2 children)

This is the result of corporate America not holding its executives personally accountable for gross negligence, and the unregulated monopolistic nature of a bunch of markets. It is well known in the industry that the whole fiasco regarding the 737 Max is caused by the acquisition of McDonnell-Douglas, and its shitty management that integrated with Boeing.

Who was held responsible for those 300 people dying? Who would have been for these guys? Who will be for the next accident?

[–] [email protected] 24 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

Weird that the company used to have a safety culture before the acquisition - I just can't imagine an aircraft company wanting to throw that away when it's so valuable to customer trust.

[–] gravitas_deficiency 29 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It’s because the finance chucklefucks ran the numbers, saw data that indicated simply paying out injury and wrongful death settlements and safety penalties appeared to be cheaper than designing a new airframe, and went that route. It’s very literally all a numbers game, and the only numbers that really matter to these idiots are the ones with $ in the front.

[–] Untitled4774 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I just watched Fight Club again, and this was literally Ed Norton’s character’s job.

a x b x c

If the number for the recall or redesign is higher than the lawsuits, they don’t do it. They let people die.

The only way to fight it is to have an automatic adjustment to all unit and wrongful death payouts times 10, hell 1000. There should be no cost on a human life.

[–] gravitas_deficiency 0 points 11 months ago

lol I gotta watch that again

[–] [email protected] 22 points 11 months ago

Watch the documentaries, the former MD board basically took over Boeing, moved leadership out of WA to Chicago, set up separate plants (one in Georgia not sure if there are more) to counter union/worker demands in WA, etc. This has been a long process resulting in the rotting of the company from the inside out. The 787 was the first example of their garbage - - even though I like the plane, it had a lot of issues.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago

Mergers of this type usually have one corporate culture win out over the other. In this case, Boeing's corporate culture lost out and with it, their safety culture.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago (1 children)

This is the result of capitalism. That’s all you needed to say.