Boeing Employees Mocked FAA in Internal Messages

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> “I still haven’t been forgiven by God for the covering up I did last year,” one of the employees says in messages from 2018, apparently in reference to interactions with the regulator.

> “Would you put your family on a Max simulator trained aircraft? I wouldn’t,” one employee said to a colleague in another exchange. “No,” the colleague responded.

This seems pretty damning.

Yeah, someone knew something. But also, maybe a lesson for all of us is to keep company messaging to company stuff and leave out the jokes.

Everyone is human. Dehumanizing all work interactions sounds pretty depressing.

I think the real problem is considering conversations in jest as evidence. We should all use key base for gossip but not all of us are technical.

If we were then keybase would be included in regulation.

Can’t win.

Or maybe do the Right Thing and blow the whistle before people actually die.

That persons must have very strong stomach. How can justify in front of mirror ? How much $$$ they received for covering it ?

Naive questions: Are they obligated by law to disclose ? Are they being somehow personaly punished / liable ?

IMO if you purposely mislead a government regulatory authority and it results in death, you should be tried for murder.

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