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Did Boeing executives go to jail for this disgusting cover up? I hope that the diesel cover-up of Volkswagen and the people that went to jail will motivate governments to pursue criminal charges against Boeing and/or Airbus if similar things happen.

Fighting blame by lying and deflection at the risk of death should be a criminal offense. It's mass murder.

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Yes, putting it into perspective like this makes the diesel case quite ridiculous. But I guess since Boeing is an American company it gets quite some bonus points before anything will happen. Not to say other countries wouldn't behave similarly...

The impression I got from the text is that Boeing has steadfastly denied a coverup, and there is probably not enough evidence to convict if they were to take them to court. The earlier crashes, the ones that claimed lives, sound like they haven't been reclassified to include this as the cause. The only incident that specifically ascribed to the control valve is the one where the pilot regained control and there was no actual loss of life. That allowed the FAA to determine the cause, and force the changes, but it didn't allow them to retroactively change the cause for past crashes. (something undoubtedly Boeing would have fought.)

>Did Boeing executives go to jail for this disgusting cover up?

Did you read this one imgur blog and assume that what is stated is an accurate representation of reality?

You do know this one imgur blog isn't the only source of this information, right?

The interpretation of what transpired (that there was a nefarious cover-up) is from this blog.

Interesting point. We could be looking at a huge compensation from Boeing to the major airlines for this. But personally, I think the damage to their reputation, and possibly FAA's, would far exceed that.

Why are you assuming what you have just seen is even true? An image, no attribution and you honestly don't even know who cooked it up or why.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_737_rudder_issues

Is it possible that you looked at the top image and didnt scroll down and read the entire thing? Everything is detailed and each incident is a matter of record, along with the outcomes and changes made by Boeing. Perhaps most damning is the fact that once Boeing were forced to fix the issue there were no more reports of this malfunction ocurring, prior to that there were many non-fatal ones which the general public didnt hear about as well as the fatal ones that received publicity.

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