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by jrockway 2480 days ago
I like how their PR person says "Safety is the highest priority at Boeing."

I feel like the reality is that "doing what our customers tell us so we sell more airplanes than Airbus" is their actual highest priority. I wonder how they fix that. I wonder if it's even possible for a publicly-traded corporation to do?

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Personally, I think the onus is on the airlines to not buy unsafe airplanes. (Although, you do then get the argument of "why would they be incentivized to do so," which is admittedly a trickier question.)
They will probably add another door so if one blows off they have a spare already.
if safety was their biggest priority they would have grounded the max after their first accident. money is their biggest priority.