Because Boeing were on such a good streak already…

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    Working for Boeings PR department must be absolute madness right now… imagine having to somehow excuse all those fuck ups and every week there is a new one

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      Except this one isn’t even a Boeing issue - this is a plane Delta has operated since 1992. This is entirely Delta’s maintenance’s fault. Boeing will still get blamed for it, of course.

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        I know, but no one cares who’s responsible at the moment. What people care about is that they read a new article about Boeings planes endangering passengers every 3 days. So while Delta is most likely at fault, Boeing is gonna take the hit to the company image. That’s why I was specifically speaking about the Boeing PR team. Those guys and the crisis managers won’t be able to catch a break for a loooong time.

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          45,000 commercial flights a day in the U.S. 35 deaths in the last 10 years. Thats about 164 million flights.

          ~115 people dying by car daily, and those numbers have been rising every year…

          If planes get their kill ratio up high enough people will stop caring and start saying it is expected/needed.

          Clearly more plane crashes are the answer.

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            how many car trips per day in the us? must be billions. deaths per mile* per traveler should be the metric, not number of trips.

            ps: safest method of transportation is the elevator.

            edit:*mile traveled

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              Elevators don’t travel any distance so if anyone is hurt by one they immediately lose by your metrics

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          “Next up: are Grandma’s visits killing her? Investigation finds Boeing builds airframes out of aluminum, which may or may not be linked to alzheimers. More at 11.”

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      The company is still worth over 100 billions. They do something right.

      Otherwise I agree with you. It’s almost hilarious to see fail after fail (as long as you are not in the plane).

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        What they do right is having a duopoly with Airbus, and great military contracts. So investors know that even if things are shit rn, they will probably get better again.

        Furthermore, while I agree that Boeing probably will not go bankrupt over this, the valuation sometimes is not a great indicator of what’s going on internally. Enron was worth over 60 billion. Half a year later they were at zero. Now I’m not saying Boeing is nearly that bad, but they are in some trouble for sure.

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        Google’s worth billions, and they can go probably about 6 years doing nothing right before that changes. It took Yahoo! a while, you’ll catch on.