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EX500rider

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19. Not sure $80 billion counts as "getting away"

Reply to travelingthrulife (Reply #18)

Sat May 24, 2025, 11:07 AM

May 24

The accidents and grounding cost Boeing an estimated $20 billion in fines, compensation, and legal fees, with indirect losses of more than $60 billion from 1,200 cancelled orders.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_737_MAX_groundings

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Boeing to avoid prosecution over 737 Max crashes in justice department deal [View all] erronis May 23 OP

Bullshit. Basso8vb May 23 #1

Glad you called it what it is: Murder. erronis May 23 #2

And this slap on the wrist will weaken international demand for those planes IbogaProject May 23 #8

No criminal prosecution...just money. Passages May 23 #3

Who? ...more fitting to have played Pink Floyd "Money" instead of YMCA NowsTheTime May 23 #4

It is a club....those who do not go to jail. Passages May 23 #6

After a design flaw Codifer May 23 #7

Excellent post, thank you. Passages May 23 #11

I've heard many reports that the McDonald Douglas merger with Boeing was the failure erronis May 23 #12

"they first blamed the foreign pilots" Which was the case in the 2nd crash EX500rider May 24 #16

The 1st crash was on them, the 2nd one not so much EX500rider May 23 #5

And people laugh at me when I say: DENVERPOPS May 23 #9

Corruption at its finest. Nanjeanne May 23 #10

The new administration cares not for dead passengers Mysterian May 23 #13

That is how Chump gets his plane built. BidenRocks May 23 #14

"$445m for crash victims' families" Aussie105 May 23 #15

aka they paid off the orange ignoramus nt Javaman May 24 #17

So Boeing gets away with murder. travelingthrulife May 24 #18

Not sure $80 billion counts as "getting away" EX500rider May 24 #19