The investigation is tied to an incident on an Alaska Airlines flight in early January. Boeing also told a Senate panel that it cannot find a record of the work done on the Alaska plane.

The investigation is tied to an incident on an Alaska Airlines flight in early January. Boeing also told a Senate panel that it cannot find a record of the work done on the Alaska plane.

  • AnneBonny@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    162·
    9 months ago

    Sadly nothing Boeing has done is criminal in the US even though it absolutely should be.

    I doubt that you know whether Boeing has or has not broken any laws.

    • orclev@lemmy.world
      3·
      9 months ago

      OK, well nothing there’s anything public about anyway. It’s always possible they’ve been embezzling or I don’t know, running a drug smuggling ring out of their warehouses, but nothing they’ve probably done is illegal. Remember this is all just a response to the multiple accidents related to manufacturing defects in their planes. At this moment the worst charge they’re looking at is maybe criminal negligence.

      • meco03211@lemmy.world
        7·
        9 months ago

        Cover up is where I’d put money. Supplying a federal agency with falsified documents or otherwise lying would start getting into criminal territory. Though I agree that we, the public, have no evidence of that.

      • frezik@midwest.social
        1·
        9 months ago

        They’re being investigated under “Conspiracy to Defraud the United States”, which does have criminal penalties.

        Now, that’s a prison sentence of up to 5 years. People died because of the decisions by Boeing executives, and countless others were put at risk. There should be a whole lot more here that they should be charged with, but probably won’t.

        • Aceticon@lemmy.world
          1·
          9 months ago

          And when was the last time that the US sent to jail anybody in the C-suite of a major US company?

          In the US (and not only) the Law might be on the book but it’s most definitelly selectivelly applied and all we’ve seen when it comes to the top people in such “too big to fail” companies is settlements with no admission of guilt.

          • frezik@midwest.social
            1·
            9 months ago

            I don’t disagree. I also think people should present the VW Diesel Emissions scandal accurately.

            • Aceticon@lemmy.world
              1·
              9 months ago

              Oh yeah, that stuff was a complete total disgrace and partly why I wrote “In the US (and not only)”.

              Protecting C-suite types in big companies is almost always how things work in Western Nations, even the supposedly more honest ones.