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Goddamnit! I had Lockheed for murder and Raytheon for gross negligence

It's not like I thought Boeing were one of the "good guys," but this is all blowing my mind.

We could eliminate 90% of air travel if business people could use zoom and email.

That's not their way, you must respect local culture.

The way over there is to give big moneys to Boeing, in this case 'for quality assurance', but pretend to forget to attach meaningful strings. Then Boeing must use all of that money for stock buybacks, as custom dictates. Anything other than that would be considered impolite. As a further sign of respect and gratitude Boeing can also fire a few % of their workforce.

He was in the middle of the testimony when he died. That is a more likely reason.

He quit Boeing long before the accident aircraft was built and delivered to the airline, let alone repaired.

As someone who works in aircraft maintenance, I am actually shocked by this. Forget the video footage, that’s just a cheap-assed commercial camera somewhere in the rafters. But the paperwork?

As a repair station, we have to document every single step of every single task. If a mechanic does it, he signs that he has done it and an inspector checks and countersigns that he has done it correctly. For a single aircraft input, this is upwards of 50,000 signed task steps. We have to hand all that data to the customer when it is complete, and also keep it for a minimum of 7 years for most stuff, some things in perpetuity.

If Boeing couldn’t provide the exact names and dates involved within a 5 minute search, then someone has already found it and destroyed it.

No, no, no - its their planes that do that.

The company is considered successful only by this one metric apparently:

For large corporations, keeping recordings for a long period is common.

I was at Sprint retail back in 2010 when information was leaked by a coworker at my retail store. The internal security team that came to the store less than a week after the leak, had recordings from the cameras 6 months prior that they were referencing when talking to all of us.

A small business may only be keeping camera recordings for maybe a month on a local DVR, but a corporation with their own data centers are going to keep those a lot longer. ESPECIALLY a government contractor where the logging requirements are much more stringent.

There is even a line of hard drives specifically made cheap and dense for security footage.

Just fly Airbus. Or Embraer. Or Bombardier. It’s still safer than driving by far.

Dealing with airports and flying is a miserable experience but is unfortunately the best way overall to travel overseas/very long distances (obviously highly dependent on where in the world you are located/where you are traveling to). I avoid flying except for maybe a trip every five years where there really isn't another viable alternative. High ticket costs, crowded aitports, TSA, all the waiting with delays in boarding, taxi'ing, de-boarding etc. really just make the juice not worth the squeeze for me.

I fully agree with you, you should not fly, since that means there will be one less person to deal with in the airport / on the plane.

Aye, I'm taking my next weekend trip from NY to Cali via car. Or by boat the kmking way around. Fuck planes!