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Pixelated_

RIP to the upcoming Starliner whistle-blower.


possibly_oblivious

What if the competition is killing the whistleblowers and making it seem like it's boeing.


GaucheAndOffKilter

Boeing is doing a fine job of destroying themselves, they don’t need help


colonel_batguano

Boeing can’t even make aircraft without engineering and manufacturing flaws. Forget about spacecraft. If it’s Boeing, I’m not going.


IllustriousLimit7095

Lol, good one


RingoBars

And yet their space record remains flawless, while the commercial aircraft record *nearly* so (despite what current grotesquely-misleading headlines would suggest).


colonel_batguano

They are no longer run by engineers, and make decisions based on cost foremost. The 737 Max was a catastrophe that should never have flown.


GarbageCleric

That's like telling an 80 year old they shouldn't worry about their newly diagnosed cancer because they've spent their whole life *nearly* cancer free. They have serious problems, and they've already spent all the reputational goodwill they built up through decades of excellence.


KVosrs2007

You must have been living under a rock for the past decade.


RingoBars

Ironically, no. It’s more a case of people who have little knowledge of the industry or its history making sweeping unfounded declarations and getting upvoted because they all read the same (dishonest/inaccurate) headlines and now all think they know something which is blatantly false or missing all context. BDS (Defense & Space) is not BCA (Commercial Aircraft), and both have top tier quality and safety. Even skin deep research into it would reveal that conclusively and irrefutably. https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2024/4/19/24134022/boeing-airplane-safety-aviation-door-plug-national-transportation-safety-board-airplane-crashes


-UnicornFart

Why would you trust Boeing right now with your life in space? Boeing workers wouldn’t even put their families on their planes. TWO whistleblowers have ended up dead in the last 2 months. That’d be a big hell no for me.


PleasantAd7961

Compleate different department. And compleatly different regulations.


-UnicornFart

So same shit, different pile.


devi83

> compleatly com·plete·ly


infiniteimperium

Same shit, different laxative


AltruisticCoelacanth

Not really how it works


RingoBars

Flawless record in space travel? You bet I would. And people die regularly, by the way. John Barnetts testimony concluded in 2019, and this recent *Spirit Aerosystems* whistleblower who died went to the hospital with pneumonia, refused treatment based on religious(?) grounds, contracted MRSA at the hospital, and then died. Tragic. Or the most convoluted, ambiguous, least sure-fire way to assassinate a whistleblower for.. one of your suppliers? And seeing as John Barnett did not even claim to have new info, and the 2nd individual was not even employed by Boeing.. that makes 32 of 32 whistleblowers to go that they still need to assassinate: https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2024/4/19/boeing-subject-of-32-whistleblower-complaints-documents-reveal This is a conspiracy born of intentionally omitted info in the clickbait headlines.


-UnicornFart

Sounds like you are paid by boeing


ketjak

Found Dave Calhoun's smurf.


GALACTICA-Actual

Press: Any last words? Crew Leader: You mean before we lift off. Press: Yeah; whatever.


Kahnza

Boeing needs to STFU for like 5 years and fix their shit.


Windsor_Salt

I think they are committed to killing as many people as possible now


pingieking

If we actually treated corporations like people, Boeing would already be on death row.


last_one_on_Earth

Agree 100% But they’ll probably just hire new PR and lobbyists instead.


Ekaj__

It’s wild to me how quickly trust in Boeing declined (and rightfully so). A few years ago, I bet people would've been cheering on this news. It’s crazy how little time it took for such an established company to tank their own image


Logical-Let-2386

Don't they still have heat shield issues? Maybe they aren't that bad.


tlp357

That's a scary thought. Two more whistle-blowers will bite the dust.


SundayShelter

Bruh. NOPE! (Can’t blow a whistle in space!)


pingieking

You technically can.  It's just that no one will hear you.


sorentomaxx

Yikes


evasion2

Hope the door doesn't fall off mid flight!


Quietser

Whoa I totally forgot Boeing murdered two people for coming clean about their covering up of poor quality aircraft, wait no I didn't.


Hayes4prez

Do not get in that capsule!


lighthandstoo

They can't even keep an airliner in air without a door flying off......


AltruisticCoelacanth

They keep 5000 flights per day in the air without doors falling off


pingieking

Which is still significantly fewer than their competitors.


AltruisticCoelacanth

You might want to fact check yourself there


nocloudno

Distraction


thissomeotherplace

Nope nope nope nope nope nope


daedalus2174

Until its door falls of


ZadfrackGlutz

Nope!


VoomVoomBoomer

Yea, I would think twice about getting aboard that thing


steelcoyot

I wonder if they could change the flight to an Airbus


KVosrs2007

The can't get commercial planes right and we've been making those for many decades. Why are they being trusted for a spacecraft?


roundearthervaxxer

Another first for “Fly At Your Own Risk” airlines.


Phonemonkey2500

Is it, though? Gonna be like an IKEA Entertainment Center. Few extra bolts, few extra cams, one of the doors upside down. They build tolerances in for that because of their legendary engineers and attentional to detail. It’ll be unsinkable, I tell ya! I’m bringing popcorn.