All of this is true. I believed in the company too, went out of my way to fly in Boeing planes. My time there convinced me it was an honorable competent company. And it was, at that time.

AND, the 737 Max knowingly violated engineering principles. One retired engineer said it looked like it was designed by monkeys. To accommodate the new, larger, heavier, clearly better engines, they had to change the position of the engines, lower and further forward. That destroyed the balance of the plane. It needed to be rethought. Instead, they installed a computer system that would over-ride the pilot and "correct" the attitude of the plane. The new system depended on a single sensor. All sensors can fail. The new system was not thoroughly explained to any pilots because the Boeing CEO worried that such a change might concern pilots which could slow sales. And likewise, pilots never flew a simulator with the new flight characteristics and the override because reprogramming simulators and retraining pilots costs a lot of money and that dampens sales.

This is the tragic flaw in US justice. In Germany, when Volkswagen marketed a diesel car that changed it's settings when tested to fake it's pollution, the EXECUTIVES went on trial. Corporations don't kill people, executives do. US justice only punishes the corporation, a mindless legal fiction. But it's the actual people who make decisions and the people are not held responsible. From the 737 Max to the Challenger astronauts being murdered by launching the flight when every knowledgeable party said it wasn't even remotely safe, we see people go free with no consequences.

It's time for a change.

I'm sure you've heard about how Boeing tried to save money and wound-up crashing planes. Well, this practice goes back over thirty years. The early 737s had a problem with the ruder control mechanism, and three planes crashed as a result, with total loss of life. Boeing blamed the weather for one and pilot error for another. The authorities didn't accept that, but the destruction was so total that they couldn't determine the cause. Two other planes experienced the same lack of control, but the pilots were able to recover.

Boeing knew all along why those planes crashed. "We have a problem," was a message sent from one Boeing executive to another. They knew what had caused those crashes, but they blamed them on the weather and the pilots. Years passed as they try to decide what to do, never letting on to what had caused the fatal crashes. They made up a chart of the possible solutions, listing the negatives of each fix. They eventually settled on a solution: drag out the replacement of the part for years. That was the cheapest way to go.




Eventually, authorities determined that the defective part had caused the problems, and that part was replaced, but it took years to get it done. Penalties for Boeing? Surely, you jest.

https://www.google.com/search?q=rudder+problem+with+737-200&oq=rudder+problem+with+737-200&aqs=edge..69i57j0i546l4.22671j0j1&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

I'm sure you've heard about how Boeing tried to save money and wound-up crashing planes. Well, this practice goes back over thirty years. The early 737s had a problem with the ruder control mechanism, and three planes crashed as a result, with total loss of life. Boeing blamed the weather for one and pilot error for another. The authorities didn't accept that, but the destruction was so total that they couldn't determine the cause. Two other planes experienced the same lack of control, but the pilots were able to recover.

Boeing knew all along why those planes crashed. "We have a problem," was a message sent from one Boeing executive to another. They knew what had caused those crashes, but they blamed them on the weather and the pilots. Years passed as they try to decide what to do, never letting on to what had caused the fatal crashes. They made up a chart of the possible solutions, listing the negatives of each fix. They eventually settled on a solution: drag out the replacement of the part for years. That was the cheapest way to go.

Eventually, authorities determined that the defective part had caused the problems, and that part was replaced, but it took years to get it done. Penalties for Boeing? Surely, you jest.

https://www.google.com/search?q=rudder+problem+with+737-200&oq=rudder+problem+with+737-200&aqs=edge..69i57j0i546l4.22671j0j1&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8