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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSully Sullenberger : Boeing's CEO is still tone deaf in continually trying to defend flawed design
of MCAS instead of taking responsibility for the 346 lives lost.
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Sully Sullenberger : Boeing's CEO is still tone deaf in continually trying to defend flawed design (Original Post)
BeckyDem
May 2019
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crazytown
(7,277 posts)1. If one of those birds falls out of the sky stateside
after they start flying again, Boeing will have killed American aerospace, and probably South West as well.
BeckyDem
(8,361 posts)2. Yes and what we've learned so far is horrifying.
crazytown
(7,277 posts)3. I'm proud of American industry and American workers.
Boeing has betrayed the United States.
BeckyDem
(8,361 posts)4. There is no other way to explain it.
crazytown
(7,277 posts)5. And so has the FAA
Boeing relied on single sensor for 737 Max that had been flagged 216 times to FAA
https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/30/politics/boeing-sensor-737-max-faa/index.html
https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/30/politics/boeing-sensor-737-max-faa/index.html
BeckyDem
(8,361 posts)6. Yes. The voices of the family members who are grieving, how they get through this knowing
what went on is just too much. Horrible beyond words.
crazytown
(7,277 posts)7. If they ever make a movie of this
I dont think I could watch it.
zipplewrath
(16,646 posts)8. The FAA is in trouble
They "outsourced" oversight to Boeing and didn't keep tabs on what Boeing was doing. We let contractors do inspections all the time, but from time to time we send in our own unannounced to ensure that they don't get complacent.