'If anything happens, it's not suicide': Boeing whistleblower's prediction before death - eviltoast
  • BarqsHasBite@lemmy.ca
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    8 months ago

    If you’re the government, you want your military planes to work. It’s in their interests to have whistleblowers. (Now there’s lots of steps that are problems in realizing that.)

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      8 months ago

      No. If you’re the state you want shit to work. If you’re part of the government, you just want to get your bribes.

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      8 months ago

      I mean there may simply have been internal reports already, just highly classified to avoid “embarrassing” the nation and not accessible or known to the general public.

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        8 months ago

        “Look, it turns out if you flip this switch on the Fa-18 and forget to turn it off after 1 to 5 minutes tops, your chances of ‘uncontrollably inverting and ejecting at high speed straight into the freaking ground’ go up tenfold. We’ve provided the USAF with a 1 hour iPad training about being touchy with the defrost function.”

        –Boeing, probably

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        8 months ago

        I feel like “risk of door blowing off mid flight” or “25% of oxygen masks don’t work” is something the public is entitled to know about

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          8 months ago

          Didn’t say they weren’t entitled to know about it, just the reasoning that might’ve gone through the government’s collective heads when not disclosing or looking the other way on Boeing doing an Epstien.