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Old 9th Jan 2021, 00:03
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tdracer
 
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Those of you who want a much large financial penalty against Boeing, you need to ask what's your end-game? Boeing is already in a financially precarious state - between the MAX fiasco and Covid, their current and long term losses are in the tens of $Billions, and tens of thousands of Boeing employees have already lost their jobs (add in the impact on suppliers, and you're well into the six figure range for job losses), with more to come.
All that would happen if the feds applied a 10 figure fine on Boeing is they'd have to turn around and bail them out again to prevent the company from completely collapsing.
Unless the goal is to put Boeing Commercial out of business and give Airbus a complete monopoly on large passenger aircraft, assessing a huge fine against Boeing would end up being counter productive...
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