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Boeing Has Friends in High Places, Thanks to Its 737 Crash Czar

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Sounds like a unresolvable conflict of interest. Good for the company, bad for the public - basically government is sprinkled with dozens of people tainted by these connections to him to varying degrees. Hows that going to result is a fair & even investigation?

I wouldn't be surprised if a government sponsored bail-out / support is on the cards.

> Boeing said there is no conflict of interest, or appearance of conflict, for Luttig in the matter.

The appearance is certainly there. Whether reality confirms it or not is a different matter.

In the last couple of years the US has shown the world that it is a highly segregated country where missteps of rich people largely go unpunished, the administration can be openly corrupt and that conflicts of interest are part of the modus operandi. So what Boeing does is par for the course.

Empires corrupt incentives- you dont have to compete, if your buddy in government can "force" your contract into external markets you own.

This "shield" hides the lack of risk taking away from the general public - after all the buisness seems to boom - meanwhile the actual wealth creators & innovators go soft or go elsewhere.

In the final phase, when there is actual resistance/competition to those shody practices, the thin fassade crumbles inwards, reavling nothing but corruption and accumulated incompetence.

This sort of self-dealing has been going on since the 1940’s, and was just the kind of problem that President Eisenhower alerted us to in his prophetic speech* warning the country about the military-industrial complex:

“In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.”

*https://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/eisenhower001.asp

This strategy could backfire if it causes EASA the EU safety regulator to distrust the integrity of the investigation.

Boeing is undermining its credibility through the promotion of such strategies. I am kind of taken aback that even after the death of >300 passengers, their attitude is to weasel out of the situation with a sham certification?

Of course, I could add "For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled", but then engineers hardly need to be told this, and the management thinks that as long as they can get away with murder, why even bother actually making a product, let alone a safe one?

Back in April, US President Donald Trump suggested rebranding the 737 MAX, claiming that would help to solve problems with the jet.

“What do I know about branding, maybe nothing (but I did become President!), but if I were Boeing, I would FIX the Boeing 737 MAX, add some additional great features, & REBRAND the plane with a new name. No product has suffered like this one. But again, what the hell do I know?” Trump tweeted. https://www.eturbonews.com/255810/trump-said-rebrand-737-max...

Rebranding only helps to have an argument in future, why all Boeing Max Datasheets are taken offline. So all information is gone also. Makes it harder for any further investigation. It is not rly deleted or hidden data, its more like bending the truth. With confusing and neverending storys, behind it.

Started with (software-trouble),2 years after these planes get licenced. 2 years long, 500 planes flyed and landed everywhere, nothing gone wrong. After 2 years, 2 nearly same accidents/crashes happend, which are related to software? Then outsourced software from india. And when they know what caused to the crashes,(hardware related delays in software processing?), why it takes so long to fix it? Its not Boeing or software, or the chip-hardware.

Interestng Link about Boeing from 2017:http://www.nlr-atsi.nl/fast/aoc/aoc_141.html

I say: Unpredictable accidents happend with these new and often experimental jet-fuels.

For example:Hydrocarbon Properties: The physical and chemical properties of hydrocarbons depend on class and carbon number.Often the variation of a property by carbon number within a class is predictable, but not always.!

1 : Chemistry of Jet Fuel Instability! Our knowledge about the details of the instability reactions is incomplete, although this is an area of ongoing research. They are believed to be multi-step reactions,some of which – perhaps including the initiating ones – are oxidation reactions. The reactants are believed to be certain nitrogen- and/or sulfur-containing compounds, organic acids, and reactive olefins. They are present at concentrations so low – parts per million at most – that identification by current analytical techniques is virtually impossible.

2: Aviation turbine fuel is a mixture of many different hydrocarbons. Modern analytical techniques are not powerful enough to separate all the individual molecular species present in jet fuel, so we don’t know how many there are, but a good guess is a thousand or more. The range of their sizes(molecular weights or carbon numbers) is restricted by the distillation, freezing point, and some-times naphthalenes and smoke point requirements for the product. Kerosine-type jet fuel has acarbon number distribution between about 8 and 16 carbon numbers; wide-cut jet fuel, betweenabout 5 and 15 carbon numbers. Typical boiling curves of kerosine-type and wide-cut jet fuel areshown in Figure 4.1

3 : Many of the test methods were developed in the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s. To ensure they remainup-to-date in light of new technological developments, ASTM and IP review each method at leastevery five years, at which time it is either reapproved, revised, or canceled. The year of last reviewis added to the test method number as a hyphenated suffix. For example, D 86-04,Standard TestMethod for Distillation of Petroleum Products,was originally published as a tentative method in1921, and was last reviewed in 2004

4 : Freezing Point Because it is a mixture of many hundreds of individual hydrocarbons, each withits own freezing point, jet fuel does not become solid at one temperature the way water does. As the fuel is cooled, the hydrocarbon components with the highest freezing points solidify first,forming wax crystals.

And much more! Geoengineering(from 1970-NOW!) reached its limit, and it seems that something gone accidently wrong. But with very dangerous global reactions. What the worldleaders are now hiding, while searching fast solutions.

Read this, ask yourself why its now on waybackmachine? What effects does it to the worldclimate, special watervapour-circuit and uv-radiation. http://web.archive.org/web/20180716111742/https://www.cgabus...

New jet-fuels are a billion dollar market. USA, Europe, UK, all have their own jetfuel-programs. And the plane-engines have to handle it. What if they tricked with their engines, or software, in the air? Or with fuelmixture? If you read the link about aviation-fuels, then you should know now, how easy it is. The fuel is subventioned by state anyway. They dont need to take care for clean aviation, or lower fuelcosts, for many years. Read how it works and understand what they did. This 2-4x faster warming what they found out, last 2 weeks. Drought in europe 2 years in row. While america has its wettest 12 months for long time, in second year now.

Whole world looked at diesel-gate. Where a manipulated software caused a dirty air for everyone! What, if the same happend for years, above our heads? With more toxical chemicals? Understand these informations! International CIRRUS Experiments: Take only a closer look to the year! https://cordis.europa.eu/project/rcn/12036/factsheet/en

And then a short look for same Experiment-name: CIRRUS and the year, when it took place here: Page 409.(7 of 36) https://www.atmos-chem-phys.net/17/403/2017/acp-17-403-2017....

Geoengineering is not a future thing. It happens since early 70s. And corruption called it conspiration-theory about chemtrails, who kill us all... Yes, we all have some years less now, because of these new nanomaterials. Wich were released with jet-fuels and are now found in every human bodypart/cell. Even in the heartmuscle of a 3 year old child.

When will the corruption end, and life of a human become a worth again? Stop these idiotic experimental fuels with nanoparticle additives. No new jetfuels anymore. They make it more worse, then it already is. This new fuel strategy was good for the 90s. And all states had a chance for new technologies. DONT DO IT AGAIN! WITH NEW LIES AND MORE TOXIC AND DANGEROUS MATERIALS. NO need to fly for short routes.

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