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TL;Dr Boeing got ate up internally from the failed company they had acquired, becoming a little bitch to a bunch of cocaine addled wall street ninkompoops, who had to be acquired because they made flying death traps, who eventually made Boeing make and sell flying death traps.
It's the circle of capitalism.
Are we talking about the time McDonnell Douglas bought Boeing with Boeing's money?
Lmao yep
The irony is the whole "if it's not Boeing I'm not going" phrase came from the era of airplanes like McDonald Douglas being so utterly shit - the company that bought Boeing. Basically a bunch of engineers got buttfucked by business school dropouts.
The only thing not covered by LWT (no shade for them at all) was the reaction time required to "correct" MCAS' error. Imagine being strapped into a seat in the cockpit, and the plane suddenly nosedived and you have under twenty seconds to correct it after not being informed it had that much control in the first place. People who fly model airplanes and helicopters wouldn't accept that. Pilots with planes full of travelers absolutely shouldn't. Enshittification issues aside, (takes mental gymnastic skills that I don't have) that is an unforgivable mistake that should have never made it to planes.