• Nobody@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    60
    arrow-down
    2
    ·
    8 months ago

    Boeing is a major part of the military industrial complex. They own the politicians in both parties, the regulators, and the courts. Laws don’t apply to them.

    • BarqsHasBite@lemmy.ca
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      42
      arrow-down
      2
      ·
      edit-2
      8 months ago

      If you’re the government, you want your military planes to work. It’s in their interests to have whistleblowers. (Now there’s lots of steps that are problems in realizing that.)

      • Gabu@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        19
        arrow-down
        3
        ·
        8 months ago

        No. If you’re the state you want shit to work. If you’re part of the government, you just want to get your bribes.

      • wanderingmagus@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        4
        ·
        8 months ago

        I mean there may simply have been internal reports already, just highly classified to avoid “embarrassing” the nation and not accessible or known to the general public.

        • Kalysta@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          3
          ·
          8 months ago

          I feel like “risk of door blowing off mid flight” or “25% of oxygen masks don’t work” is something the public is entitled to know about

          • wanderingmagus@lemmy.world
            link
            fedilink
            arrow-up
            2
            ·
            8 months ago

            Didn’t say they weren’t entitled to know about it, just the reasoning that might’ve gone through the government’s collective heads when not disclosing or looking the other way on Boeing doing an Epstien.

        • MonkeMischief@lemmy.today
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          3
          ·
          8 months ago

          “Look, it turns out if you flip this switch on the Fa-18 and forget to turn it off after 1 to 5 minutes tops, your chances of ‘uncontrollably inverting and ejecting at high speed straight into the freaking ground’ go up tenfold. We’ve provided the USAF with a 1 hour iPad training about being touchy with the defrost function.”

          –Boeing, probably

    • skulblaka@startrek.website
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      19
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      8 months ago

      If they can’t deliver a product that stays in one piece when not even being shot at, they aren’t about to stay a part of that MIC for long.

      • Zaktor@sopuli.xyz
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        8 months ago

        The MIC has very little to do with making high-quality military equipment and much more to do with kickbacks and local jobs. Boeing and the other prime contractors are massively inefficient and often performing make-work jobs that no one in the military wants (like making more tanks).