How Boeing's Responsibility in a Deadly Crash 'Got Buried'

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How Boeing’s Responsibility in a Deadly Crash ‘Got Buried’

Lessons from a 2009 Boeing plane crash would have relevance in tragedies years later.Credit...Ade Johnson/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
By Chris Hamby
Published Jan. 20, 2020
Updated Jan. 21, 2020

After a Boeing 737 crashed near Amsterdam more than a decade ago, the Dutch investigators focused blame on the pilots for failing to react properly when an automated system malfunctioned and caused the plane to plummet into a field, killing nine people.

The fault was hardly the crew’s alone, however. Decisions by Boeing, including risky design choices and faulty safety assessments, also contributed to the accident on the Turkish Airlines flight. But the Dutch Safety Board either excluded or played down criticisms of the manufacturer in its final report after pushback from a team of Americans that included Boeing and federal safety officials, documents and interviews show.

The crash, in February 2009, involved a predecessor to Boeing’s 737 Max, the plane that was grounded last year after accidents in Indonesia and Ethiopia killed 346 people and hurled the company into the worst crisis in its history.

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1. What happens when deregulation occurs to help corporations make easier profits.

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2. Only poor people and brown people are asked to have responsibility.

Banks, and large corporations, not so much.

Many years ago, Ford Motor Company made a decision to save 10 cents per vehicle by not installing a shield at the gas tank. People died from rear end collisions that resulted in gas tank fires. The company decided that the cost of settling lawsuits was cheaper than the 10 cents per vehicle of the shield to prevent such fires.

Business as usual in a system where money ranks above public health.

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3. That's the truth

Sickening

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4. I lay the blame in it's entirety at Boeing's doorstep

It was the

"Decisions by Boeing, including risky design choices"

These planes need to be scrapped.