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FAA proposes fining Boeing $1.25 million for exerting undue pressure on safety reps in South Carolina
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) on Wednesday proposed to fine Boeing just over $1.25 million for violations in the program that allows company employees to perform oversight on behalf of the safety agency. (www.seattletimes.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
Screw the fine, make them fire the people responsible or even better prosecute them.
That sounds good. That's what I want
a paltry sum. Should be 10x that
300 times that. 100% for every innocent human that died in those two plane crashes.
Boeing profited mighty until the crashes. Their existing management made massive salary and bonuses. Then, they still did, until the CEO left. How many of his hand picked jackals are still there?
Accountability ended in America, and especially corporate accountability. If corporations are people, they should be held accountable for their heinous acts for profit that kill and harm people. Shareholders are NOT the reason corporations exist.
Boeing profited mighty until the crashes. Their existing management made massive salary and bonuses. Then, they still did, until the CEO left. How many of his hand picked jackals are still there?
Accountability ended in America, and especially corporate accountability. If corporations are people, they should be held accountable for their heinous acts for profit that kill and harm people. Shareholders are NOT the reason corporations exist.
The South Carolina plant manufactures 787's not 737 MAX.
At least get your airframe correct.
At least get your airframe correct.
True, but both are 'non-union', and under increased pressure, I'd bet, to LIE to the FAA, and LIE in their documentation. Everything that happens to an airframe is supposed to be documented so that *everyone* that touched it is logged so that anything that happens is supposed to be traceable. But if people are encouraged to lie, and deny known issues, who is the real criminal?
Boeing, or the FAA?
I say that the real criminal in this situation is the GOP who pushed to slash the budget across the nation, called 'sequestration'. Think of it as a fancy way of saying 'austerity'.
Your parents tell you that your allowance is now $0.25, but you have to do everything that you did when it was $5.00.
Or, your employer says your hourly wages are going to be $1.25, but you have to do everything that you were already doing. So they shifted regulatory functions to the regulated industries. Boeing was now able to 'certify' their own products, and their own work. It was the only way to get the work of the FAA done. AND this spread across the government. Meat packers are able to 'certify' their meat WITHOUT federal inspectors!
So, if not for sequestration, the government would have the money to enforce regulations and employ inspectors that will make sure that the 'SO US THE MONEY' corporations in America will LIVE UP TO EXISTING regulations.
Leaving the regulated industries to regulate themselves is idiotic! You CAN'T give that much power to ANY corporation! You Just Can't!!! Over and over again, you can't trust corporate America. So, can you trust their handmaidens in government, and Washington DC? HELL NO!!!
The crisis at Boeing is all across government, and it's only gotten worse in the past 3 years.
A mining lobbyist is running the bureau of land management, polluters are running the EPA, and the malfeasance goes on and on...
Another term of this, and we are all doomed.
Boeing, or the FAA?
I say that the real criminal in this situation is the GOP who pushed to slash the budget across the nation, called 'sequestration'. Think of it as a fancy way of saying 'austerity'.
Your parents tell you that your allowance is now $0.25, but you have to do everything that you did when it was $5.00.
Or, your employer says your hourly wages are going to be $1.25, but you have to do everything that you were already doing. So they shifted regulatory functions to the regulated industries. Boeing was now able to 'certify' their own products, and their own work. It was the only way to get the work of the FAA done. AND this spread across the government. Meat packers are able to 'certify' their meat WITHOUT federal inspectors!
So, if not for sequestration, the government would have the money to enforce regulations and employ inspectors that will make sure that the 'SO US THE MONEY' corporations in America will LIVE UP TO EXISTING regulations.
Leaving the regulated industries to regulate themselves is idiotic! You CAN'T give that much power to ANY corporation! You Just Can't!!! Over and over again, you can't trust corporate America. So, can you trust their handmaidens in government, and Washington DC? HELL NO!!!
The crisis at Boeing is all across government, and it's only gotten worse in the past 3 years.
A mining lobbyist is running the bureau of land management, polluters are running the EPA, and the malfeasance goes on and on...
Another term of this, and we are all doomed.
Boeing still not out of the woods.