[mhh__]

The fact that we actually know about it is proof that we can't be blinkered about the differences between the west and elsewhere, surely?

[theflyinghorse]

Didn't Boeing leadership try everything they could to deflect the issue?

[mhh__]

Exactly, but we are lucky that in the West the truth usually gets out both thanks to regulators and a free-ish market.

[datenarsch]

Well, mainly the truth came out because two planes crashed and hundreds of people were killed. That's something even Boeing couldn't sweep under the rug.