• InevitableSwing [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    8 months ago

    What the fuck is going on?

    In early March, fumes detected in the cabin of a Boeing 737-800 Alaska Airlines flight caused a flight destined for Phoenix to return to the Portland airport. The Port of Portland said passengers and crew noticed the fumes and the flight landed safely. Seven people including passengers and crew requested medical evaluations, but no one was hospitalized, officials said.

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    On Friday, a Boeing 737-800 was found to have a missing panel after a United Airlines flight arrived in southern Oregon from San Francisco. The plane landed without incident and the external panel was discovered missing during a post-flight inspection. The Federal Aviation Administration said it would investigate the incident.

    Those are the incidents that are public. Imagine what other stuff doesn’t reach the media because it’s not “newsworthy”.

    Oops, another bolt fell off midflight…

    Plus the guy who was going to testify but right before that he committed suicide.

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      8 months ago

      They know they’re only going to get a slap on the wrist until it’s something catastrophic

      Which, even then, is going to get someone to take a golden parachute deal and shuffle off to a different company

      Which should make people so much angrier

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        8 months ago

        take a golden parachute deal and shuffle off to a different company

        That guy might get a $100 million payout and then he immediately starts working for Evil Corp Death Drone Aeronautics at twice his old salary. Meanwhile Boeing will find some much lower level people to scapegoat. And Garland’s DOJ will to a PR job. They won’t prosecute any execs. Instead they’ll do what they always do. They’ll level large (if not huge) fines and give press conferences crowing about this is justice and how the rule of law is he law of the land. It’s a nifty reward to the most guilty (the rich and connected) because it’s their get out of jail free card plus their reputations can remain unblemished.