We have been here before have we not, albeit many, many years ago with the THY DC-10 at ermenonville, a senior Convair engineer (subcontractor) on the project warned of a "fundamental failure mode" with the cargo door latching mechanism, which for reasons that remain murky to this day were never actually fixed on the fateful aircraft (ship 29) resulting in catastrophe.
That was the time the FAA chief admitted (wouldn't happen today) they were "Fat, dumb and happy" (verbatim) in oversight, a remarkable statement, they were the only party to come out with a little self-respect from the whole tawdry affair.
That there were no emails, social media or such back then of course, and the stamp on the forms that said the door work had been carried out seemingly falsified (again this was never resolved) with all and sundry denying everything (although the smoking gun was the Applegate memorandum) shows that today, hiding is far more difficult.
There are certainly parallels even though the cases are forty five years apart.
Incidentally the lawsuits that followed were the largest in history at that time (mid 1970's) with McDD never (I believe) admitting full culpability.