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Profits come before people in the competitive world of aviation, says STEVEN WALKER
BOEING recently announced that it would give $100 million to help families affected by the two 737 Max crashes in 2018 and earlier this year. A few days later a low-cost Saudi operator cancelled an order worth $6 billion.
Boeing’s company value has sunk $28bn since the grounding of all Boeing 737 Max aircraft. This is a modern tale of capitalism in action: competition, greed and short-cuts leading to avoidable deaths and putting tens of thousands of workers’ jobs at risk.
The media coverage of the Boeing 737 Max aircraft has generally accepted the official company line that pilot error was to blame for the deaths of 346 people in two crashes because they failed to read the operating manual.
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