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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge3/12/2019 9:44:59 am PDT

re: #488 Hecuba’s daughter

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.

Yeah, I’ve spent my whole life in Seattle and the surrounding area, so naturally I hate Boeing with a purple passion—but they genuinely are “too big to fail”.