Settings

Theme

Boeing reaches deal to avoid prosecution over deadly 737 MAX crashes

cnbc.com

30 points by passwordoops 7 months ago · 15 comments

Reader

trueismywork 7 months ago

There has to be personal accountability for people at top, otherwise they'll just peddle their shit in the next company they'll be the part of.

  • thefz 7 months ago

    This agreement shows that basically you can buy yourself out of justice.

    • belter 7 months ago

      No Management Board Bonus were hurt in the making of this agreement...

    • BenoitP 7 months ago

      * with shareholder money

      • Ekaros 7 months ago

        And not even doing the proper thing and taking it directly from their accounts... I think that too is justified for this case.

  • hulitu 7 months ago

    > There has to be personal accountability for people at top

    This is like being the judge and the accused at the same time. The people at top _are_ the state. They can buy their way out of everything.

  • tiahura 7 months ago

    How many of the PE’s went to jail or even lost their license?

c0balt 7 months ago

If I read this correctly they plead guilty at the end of bidens presidency but the plea deal was rejected by a judge.

Reasoning being the the DOJ was being accused of potentially making a choice for a person to monitor the pea deal terms based on DEI instead of competency.

Adminstaration changed, and with the DOJ of the current administration in place they instead got out of it with a settlement instead of a felony?

petre 7 months ago

"That amount includes a $487.2 million criminal fine, though $243.6 million it already paid in an earlier agreement would be credited. It also includes $444.5 million for a new fund for crash victims, and $445 million more on compliance, safety and quality programs."

That amounts to 1.28M per human life. Also, most of the victims were conveniently Africans and South Asians. I hope airlines on those other continents avoid Boeing like the plague.

mmooss 7 months ago

The judge could still reject it; they rejected the prior agreement last summer.

vivzkestrel 7 months ago

0 coverge on all major media channels as expected

OutOfHere 7 months ago

Planes always need to have a lower level mode of control for more manual flying, with layered optional higher level modes. It's like a Python programmer should always be able to drop down into C and even Assembly when the work demands it.

Keyboard Shortcuts

j
Next item
k
Previous item
o / Enter
Open selected item
?
Show this help
Esc
Close modal / clear selection