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Alaska Airlines CEO: We found “many” loose bolts on our Max 9 planes following near-disaster — “My demand on Boeing is what are they going to do to improve their quality programs in-house.” (www.nbcnews.com)
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Alaska Airlines CEO: We found “many” loose bolts on our Max 9 planes following near-disaster — “My demand on Boeing is what are they going to do to improve their quality programs in-house.”::The CEO of Alaska Airlines said new inspections of the carrier's Boeing 737 Max 9 planes revealed that “many” of the aircraft were found to have loose bolts.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, I hate to be morbidly pessimistic, but this is an American private company we're talking about: I don't think anything will be done until people die

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Payouts for the deaths would just be a cost of doing business.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Yep and it would probably be handled as a class action suit, so each grieving family gets $7.25