BREAKING: Boeing CEO Fired

As long as Boeing puts incremental profit ahead of safety and engineering, it will continue to have problems.

I almost guarantee that shit would stop the moment they charge an airline executive with hundreds of counts of involuntary manslaughter when their decision to ignore maintenance and safety issues leads to mass casualties.

Alaska Airlines is one of the most egregious examples. The executives cut down on the amount of maintenance and safety checks they did on their planes in order to save costs. They fired a whistleblower who raised the alarm about safety issues. They were specifically told that there was something wrong with one of the screws on Flight 261, and they refused to repair or replace it. That faulty screw eventually caused Flight 261 to plummet into the Pacific Ocean, killing everyone on board. Whoever made the decision to not fix a known safety hazard on that plane deserved to have been charged with 88 counts of manslaughter and spend the rest of their life in prison.

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