Thanks for making this skeptical point, Jeff C. My husband has worked in aviation for 20+ years (not ever Boeing). He has said similar things to your comment. Incidents happen all the time in aviation, including serious-but-less-than-a-crash ones, and across all major aviation companies. The fact that there is such a laser focus on Boein…
Thanks for making this skeptical point, Jeff C. My husband has worked in aviation for 20+ years (not ever Boeing). He has said similar things to your comment. Incidents happen all the time in aviation, including serious-but-less-than-a-crash ones, and across all major aviation companies. The fact that there is such a laser focus on Boeing right now, during the presidency of a China-owned puppet, while a China-owned 737 clone is waiting impatiently in the wings, should give rational people pause and raise questions about motives.
That said, I wish these corporations would stop making it so easy to take them out. The “culture of failure” has a lot to do with bowing to DEI that they were told was the key to success. And I’m sure greed. That’s my personal opinion…
But the current media takedown is not commensurate with the crime (unless they intend to shut down all aviation manufacturers and airlines too, for myriad safety failures). And if the public cries out for this, just note what we will lose…no more quick dashes to Grandma across the country, no more emergency flights home for illnesses of a loved one, no more easy access to adventurous locations that otherwise would be a week’s drive away…
And that’s just within our own country.
I hope people don’t let themselves get conned on this.
I'll also point out that "little problems" with airliners happened more than you might realize in the past, and the big difference was that in previous decades only the big events were in the papers and on the nightly news. Without internet, you just didn't find out about things happening when there was no crash or loss of life. The internet tells us everything, all the time.
Thanks for making this skeptical point, Jeff C. My husband has worked in aviation for 20+ years (not ever Boeing). He has said similar things to your comment. Incidents happen all the time in aviation, including serious-but-less-than-a-crash ones, and across all major aviation companies. The fact that there is such a laser focus on Boeing right now, during the presidency of a China-owned puppet, while a China-owned 737 clone is waiting impatiently in the wings, should give rational people pause and raise questions about motives.
That said, I wish these corporations would stop making it so easy to take them out. The “culture of failure” has a lot to do with bowing to DEI that they were told was the key to success. And I’m sure greed. That’s my personal opinion…
But the current media takedown is not commensurate with the crime (unless they intend to shut down all aviation manufacturers and airlines too, for myriad safety failures). And if the public cries out for this, just note what we will lose…no more quick dashes to Grandma across the country, no more emergency flights home for illnesses of a loved one, no more easy access to adventurous locations that otherwise would be a week’s drive away…
And that’s just within our own country.
I hope people don’t let themselves get conned on this.
I'll also point out that "little problems" with airliners happened more than you might realize in the past, and the big difference was that in previous decades only the big events were in the papers and on the nightly news. Without internet, you just didn't find out about things happening when there was no crash or loss of life. The internet tells us everything, all the time.