https://www.channelnewsasia.com/world/boeing-737-max-executives-unlikely-be-charged-4380156
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/16367200
Boeing executives unlikely to be charged over 737 MAX crashes: Source
I wonder what the game of the US army is then though. They can't be interested in having their planes just fall apart or their bombs just go off at random. Letting Boeing get away with deliberately killing civillians through poor quality and QA will only let that culture leak into the military production branch too.
‘Villengard battle products are fitted with AI,’ the Doctor explains. ‘The algorithm maintains a fighting force at just above the acceptable number of casualties – keeps you fighting, keeps you dying, keeps you buying. Medical services optimise the casualty rate for continued conflict. War is conflict … and business is booming. You are fighting your own hardware and it’s killing you to keep you buying more.’ [emphasis added]
—The Doctor, Doctor Who (2023), S01E03 “Boom” (2024-05-18)
Two different sides of the company with different management, factories, and safety inspectors. The DOD will absolutely withhold billions of dollars in payment if they have to ground Boeing's planes. Meanwhile the FAA finds safety issues with civilian jet production and allows them to continue at the current rate. So two entirely different accountability schemes too.
As usual, corporations are people up to the moment it's been discovered by the government that a crime has been committed.
Your honor, my client has instructed me to remind the court how rich and important he is & that he is not like other men
"... as the statute of limitations has likely passed."
It doesn't seem to be guaranteed it's passed. Someone is just guessing it has.
…aaaaaand they just had to scrub their new crew capsule final cert launch earlier today.
E: guys fr I don’t get how the c-suite hasn’t been federally indicted at this point, it’s that bad