Originally posted by Evan
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You are conflating two issues together: The lack of engineering and safety culture at Boeing, and the choice to re-use the old airframe. They are not dependent on each other. The planes crashed because of a lack of safety and engineering culture. Period. There are documented delivery issues with 787's and 777's as well also related to this issue. The financial calculation of 737 airframe vs brand new is completely independent and you don't have anywhere near the numbers or models to call that one a good or bad decision.
As for clearing house, the guy at the top getting fired was long overdue.
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