I know it is corporate incompetence, but part of me wants to believe the Russians infiltrated Boeing and secretly altered repair records or falsified safety inspections just so that America's Airspace industry would fall apart and Russki Musk could swoop in and take over.
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I wouldn't describe this as corporate incompetence. I would say the corporation is functioning exactly as the bosses wanted it to. They got their market dominance, they got their assurances of bailouts no matter how much they messed up, and they decided to make as much money for themselves as possible. It's a total success story, for a small group of people, as long as you don't consider all of the damage that was done on the side.
Another way of looking at it is to say that the system is functioning as intended. It's just that we wish otherwise.
Therefore, Boeing's Starliner spacecraft will undock from the station early next month—the tentative date, according to a source, is September 6—and attempt to make an autonomous return to Earth and land in a desert in the southwestern United States.
The whole world will be watching that and if it fails, so will Boeing.
What a fucking mess Boeing's gotten itself into.
To say Boeing has gloriously fucked up is an understatement
Boeing has already failed... to what scale will be directly proportional to how big of a fireball this thing turns into.
Not to worry. I’m sure the Boeing executives golden parachutes will save them.
Has anyone tested a Boeing parachute lately?
We all know it's, at best, burning itself on reentry.
Probably not even Boeing's space program.
Airbus can't just jump in and suddenly make all the planes to replace Boeing's civilian sector. Moreover they are irreplaceable in the defence sector. If Boeing really is to go down completly, it will take years of bad news.
It's not clear to me that they are irreplaceable. If enough of their planes fall apart, you have no choice but to replace them. And also, if Boeing is so incompetent that they can't get anything right, that's a good argument for nationalizing the company. If they're necessary but incompetent, and all track records indicate that they are getting worse, then the only solution is to take them over.
This is the way. Bail them out when they tank, but do so with a 51% (pr more!) stock purchase by the gov on behalf of the people/society. Force a new board. Fix the company. If they're ever profitable again they're free to buy their stock back from the gov at the market price. I'm not usually a capitalist, but an /actual/ capitalist bailout seems like a good way to fix the rot in this case.
Well it has been a few years of bad news.......
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