737 Max Scandal Cuts Boeing's Once Rock-Solid Image

Re:737 Max Scandal Cuts Boeing's Once Rock-Solid Image by Arnt on Wednesday November 27, 2019 @09:00AM (#21647851)

I agree with your last sentence... It's weird though. Why won't smooth marketing talk work this time? It has worked many times, for many companies, independent of factual reason. What's particular about this time?

I understand the HN consensus about what actually went wrong inside Boeing. Maybe the HN consensus is right, maybe it isn't. What I find weird is that this time, the PR works differently.

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Re:737 Max Scandal Cuts Boeing's Once Rock-Solid Image by bobthepanda on Wednesday November 27, 2019 @11:59AM (#21649579)

This will have been the biggest, or at least the most visible, collective failure of aviation regulators in a very long time, if not ever, to provide checks on a company. So they are all pissed. And now that the FAA has fucked up other regulators are not keen to just blindly follow their guidance, particularly those in jurisdiction with existing or potential Boeing competitors.

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Re:737 Max Scandal Cuts Boeing's Once Rock-Solid Image by lonelappde on Wednesday November 27, 2019 @12:04PM (#21649626)

"some hacker might mess up your credit report " vs "holy shit planes falling out of the sky".

In the US, the traditional solution to a nasty plane crash is to merge another airline just to get a new name (cf AirTran nee ValueJet 593)

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