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Originally Posted by astrochex
Totally agree on the last point.
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Yes. I am held accountable by my deliberately selfish decisions. If by no one else, by me at least. My Pelicanhead friends are as well. Each of us has a conscience, I assume. Apparently, Boeing management is not bothered by such emotional dissonance. Boeing paid around $2.5 billion to "settle" this matter but here's the rest of that story: The vast majority of that was restitution. The actual settlement of the criminal matter was only $243.6 million. That is pretty inexpensive, given what they did. And the best part (from management's perspective: The stockholders paid it.
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/boeing-charged-737-max-fraud-conspiracy-and-agrees-pay-over-25-billion
Seriously.....watch the film. "Downfall." I think it is on Netflix. From the moment the flaps re retracted and MCAS was automatically turned on with a single, non-functional and non-redundant Angle of Attack sensor, the pilot would have about ten seconds to figure out what to do. None of them were trained on this. Boeing actively concealed the existence of the system and refused to train pilots on its use. Even when the training was requested.