re: #464 Backwoods_Sleuth

Boeing directed a lot of Free Speech at Mitch McConnell’s PAC and the NRSC in the last cycle. Something to consider today.

Boeing has no interest in promoting or selling a plane that is dangerous. It’s not like the Sacklers who knew that opioid addiction leads to profits; or the tobacco companies where a toxic product that eventually kills many of its users also leads to profits. For the airplane industry, a product that is dangerous leads to the death of the company. I have no doubt that they are working full time — overtime — trying to determine what happened. They would not have knowingly sold a plane that posed such a danger.

If Boeing dies, the damage to this nation and its technology is incalculable — it’s not as though there is another American firm that can take up its mantle to produce civilian aircraft. They have to resolve this soon — and my concern is that the real problem is so embedded in a lethal flaw in the design that it cannot be corrected on a timely basis.