I would prefer that Boeing be put out of business, rather than "learning a lot from this process". I think that the word "unfortunate" is too conservative to cover this situation.

A corporation is not a person and punishment isn't always the answer, but we are looking at a lot of deaths and this new issue sounds like it could have caused even more. If the FAA had missed this one we could have been looking at another crash. Maybe putting Boeing out of business would serve as a cautionary tale to the remaining companies in this space that they should be making more conservative choices when it comes to development of a product that has the potential to injure or kill such a large number of people.

As it is, I'm not sure what the moral of this story is for Boeing. Is it that the company is "too big to fail"? It is that they need to tough out the bad press to really be successful?

I worry that maybe it's something along the lines of "you have to crack a few eggs to make an omelette."