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Boeing appears to already be lawyering up their execs while throwing engineers under the bus. It’s going to be all about denying everything now.

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Yes, it was probably another vast multi-decade inter-company conspiracy entirely orchestrated & executed in secret by THIS lone, junior engineer, hired last January. Amazing how systemic this kind of problem is.

The secret head of the conspiracy was the security guard working in the FAL. Or so I heard.

Except, the "lone engineer" VW blamed it on was the head of the diesel engine department, and by now even the former CEO is facing jailtime.

I doubt Boeings management will get any punishment whatsoever.

There's no way the execs can deny they knew everything by the time the second plane crashed. It's damn if they do, damn if they don't. If they didn't know, why the hell not?! A plane crashed, why wouldn't they demand to know? That's negligence. If they did know, they had months to make a decision that would have saved the second plane and did nothing.

Reminds you of VW...

Except no one is going to jail.

Maybe Ethiopia can trick a Boeing executive into visiting for vacation.

Yes but they probably can't subpoena corporate data/emails to complete the necessary due diligence. They need the FBI to seize evidence, if that even exists.

Depends if Ethiopia believes the US will declare war against Ethiopia, or otherwise destabilise Ethiopia over one token Boing executive being detained fairly-indefinitely.

Lol... ok.

I couldn’t keep a straight face while typing that.

Geopolitics meets speculative fiction, amateur style.

Boeing CEO arrives in China

Ethiopia puts in an extradition request to China

Indonesia puts in a competing one

CEO stays in China for a significant time

Pressure on U.S. to cave in on sanctions. Trump refuses.

I wonder if Lion Air will be determined to be the Arch Duke Ferdinand of WW3. Either way would be good to get some actual consequences for decision makers at the top of corporations.

If this is even possible they would do this to trade for the Huwei exec. Also Ethiopia gets a ton of US aid and military support so it wouldn’t be in their interest.

Why does that approach ring a bell? Ah, VW, that's why! Didn't work out too well for these Execs neither...

Think they'll stay out of jail or end up as American's Samsung?

They also selling bonds, after a $20B stock buyback.

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