[navigatesol]

>because if people could see what happened they would never fly one of those things again.

They might not anyway.

As it is, people are irrationally afraid of flying. Plane crashes are a fetishized "nightmare scenario". Multiple crashes linked to the same plane (or company) will, likely, have terrible business consequences.

[BurnGpuBurn]

Well we can hope, can't we? As long as no exec at all is going to go to jail for this, I say let Boeing die. It's the least we can still do for those 300+ victims and their families.

[alexis_fr]

« Let them die, or at least never use them for passenger travel anymore » is what they said for McDonnell Douglas (DC-9, DC-10 and MD-11 must represent half of Air Crash Investigation episodes), the company lost a lot of value.

So Boeing bought it.