The US transportation secretary announced on Wednesday afternoon that no grounded Boeing 737 Max 9 would return to service “until it is safe”, after Alaska Airlines announced the cancellation of all flights on its 737 Max 9 planes at the direction of the Federal Aviation Administration.

Pete Buttigieg said he was “not putting a timeline” on when the FAA will allow the planes to resume flights.

Every plane that the US aircraft manufacturer delivers “needs to be 100% safe”, Buttigieg added.

He said he has spoken to the head of Boeing and told him the company needs to do everything it can to establish 100% confidence in its planes.

    • rem26_art
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      206 months ago

      Worst decision Boeing could have made was buying Mcdonnel Douglass, who was doing poorly, and then letting the people in charge of Mcdonnel Douglass (who, did I mention was doing poorly) run Boeing

    • @[email protected]
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      16 months ago

      It’s happened/happening to every major company ever.

      I’m not sure what the solution is, but publicly traded companies will always make inferior products, because the incentive for a good product is always after profit.

      • @[email protected]
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        26 months ago

        IMO, make all companies employee owned instead of investor owned so the decisions are made by those with stake in keeping the company going, not those that want to milk it for infinitely increasing profit that outpaces inflation despite having reached their market cap.