New York: Boeing executives are unlikely to be criminally charged over fatal crashes in 2018 and 2019 that killed 346 people as the statute of limitations has likely passed, US Justice Department officials told victims' family members in a meeting. Details were corroborated by a person familiar with the ga
  • cerement@slrpnk.netEnglish
    641·
    5 months ago

    they’re a major defense contractor, they’re basically untouchable …

    • arin@lemmy.worldEnglish
      361·
      5 months ago

      Former employees get touched tho especially if they blow the whistle

    • Tryptaminev@lemm.eeEnglish
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      5 months ago

      I wonder what the game of the US army is then though. They can’t be interested in having their planes just fall apart or their bombs just go off at random. Letting Boeing get away with deliberately killing civillians through poor quality and QA will only let that culture leak into the military production branch too.

      • cerement@slrpnk.netEnglish
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        5 months ago

        ‘Villengard battle products are fitted with AI,’ the Doctor explains. ‘The algorithm maintains a fighting force at just above the acceptable number of casualties – keeps you fighting, keeps you dying, keeps you buying. Medical services optimise the casualty rate for continued conflict. War is conflict … and business is booming. You are fighting your own hardware and it’s killing you to keep you buying more.’ [emphasis added]

        —The Doctor, Doctor Who (2023), S01E03 “Boom” (2024-05-18)

      • Maggoty@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        5 months ago

        Two different sides of the company with different management, factories, and safety inspectors. The DOD will absolutely withhold billions of dollars in payment if they have to ground Boeing’s planes. Meanwhile the FAA finds safety issues with civilian jet production and allows them to continue at the current rate. So two entirely different accountability schemes too.

  • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldMEnglish
    51·
    5 months ago

    As usual, corporations are people up to the moment it’s been discovered by the government that a crime has been committed.

  • Trabic@lemmy.oneEnglish
    34·
    5 months ago

    Your honor, my client has instructed me to remind the court how rich and important he is & that he is not like other men

  • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    162·
    5 months ago

    …aaaaaand they just had to scrub their new crew capsule final cert launch earlier today.

    E: guys fr I don’t get how the c-suite hasn’t been federally indicted at this point, it’s that bad

    • girlfreddy@lemmy.caEnglish
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      5 months ago

      “… as the statute of limitations has likely passed.”

      It doesn’t seem to be guaranteed it’s passed. Someone is just guessing it has.