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‘If it’s Boeing, I’m not going’: Some travelers nervous to fly after recent plane issues (www.wfla.com)

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[–] Ashyr@sh.itjust.works 15 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Recent issues in geologic time, perhaps, but these last few months are just the latest in a many-year buildup.

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 30 points 7 months ago

Yeah. As demonstrated by an excellent Last Week Tonight segment, the company that used to be a byword for engineering excellence has been a stock value maximization company that sometimes (shoddily) builds airplanes ever since the 1997 merger with McDonnell Douglas.