Trump's former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley has joined Boeing's Board of Directors

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Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2019/05/02/737-r-us.html

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Boeing: “Thanks Nikki for helping to get our union free shop set up in Charleston. BTW here’s a nice opportunity for you…”

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“Well, Ms. Haley, given your experience of working for a large, disaster-prone organization whose flagship projects have a tendency to nosedive fatally shortly after launch, we think you’ll fit right in here at Boeing. Welcome aboard!”

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I have an intense dislike for Boeing from when I had been a Department of Defense contract auditor. I am not legally saying I have ever audited the company’s defense contracts.

I’m just saying I fucking hate some of their unseen business practices, and considering the tactics I saw in that job, I am not surprised they would hire on this unethical bag of squirrels to their board of directors.

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A girls’ gotta eat ya know.

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Shrewd move. Now, no matter how horrifically incompetent Boeing was in the 737MAX fiasco, they’ll never lose a dime of gov’t contracts. Because corruption.

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I guess there’s still an American Dream.

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Well, if there is it must be happening in other parts of that continent (though it is hard to say where) given the nightmare timeline currently evidenced by the United States thereof.

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From now on, all Boeing airliners will only come with a right wing.

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It’ll keep them from drawing dicks in the skies.

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I never said it was available to the majority of us. Just that it’s still available to some in the upper tax brackets and better neighborhoods. People who are connected.

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Congrats, Boeing Boeing!

Or, you meant… oh.

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Safety optional

When Boeing began delivering its 737 Max to customers in 2017, the company believed that a key cockpit warning light was a standard feature in all of the new jets.

But months after the planes were flying, company engineers realized that the warning light worked only on planes whose customers had bought a different, optional indicator.

In essence, that meant a safety feature that Boeing thought was standard was actually a premium add-on.

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Mr. Tajer, who is also a 737 pilot, said he was concerned that Boeing did not seem to fully grasp how every aspect of the Max worked.

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