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Jeff C's avatar

Thanks for pointing this out. Boeing is an airframe manufacturer and systems integrator, they don't make the engines. Five seconds of googling would tell people this.

In case people haven't noticed the quality of everything has gone to crap over the last four years. New cars are trash and unreliable as one obvious example. It has resulted from years of corporate office corruption, horrible supply chain issues, inefficient work from home, and promoting incompetent people (DEI).

Boeing is not unique and is being singled out due to a media feeding frenzy and Chinese media manipulation. (Read Michael Crichton's Airframe, it was written twenty years ago and was prophetic.) No one is buying the new Chinese airliner and they are working to destroy Boeing's reputation. Seriously, aside from those two 787 MAX crashes five years ago (which were very real and a true engineering design flaw), how many people have died in defective Boeing airplanes? None that I know of.

Boeing's corporate front office are garbage humans, there is no denying that. But the people building these planes are fellow Americans yet the media is hell-bent on destroying the company and people are all too happy to do their bidding for them. This isn't pharma where there are hundreds of thousands of dead bodies piled up with deliberate deception that resulted in people injecting/digesting poison. Yet people are gleefully piling on a successful American company. Air travel is incredibly safe by any objective measure, regardless of whether it's Boeing, Airbus, or the smaller regional jet manufacturers. There is no statistically significant difference in safety among the manufacturers.

People's ignorance of risk/benefit analysis is what drives them to shoot off their mouth when they don't know what they are talking about. It's the same reason people lined up and demand others take an experimental injection, the media told them too. They are driven by media-manipulated fear and cannot objectively assess risk vs, benefit. It's embarrassing. Do any of these people have any objective evidence that Boeing planes are significantly less safe than Airbus (or that Chinese piece of garbage)? No, none. But the media told them Boeing is crap and they should be afraid.

Throw Calhoun and his band of front office thieves in jail for looting the company. Good riddance to bad rubbish. But stop parroting everything the media tells you. Good grief, you would have thought people had wised up by now.

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Politico Phil's avatar

Exactly.

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