While I was researching this story I took the approach of what if it happened anywhere but Iran. How would we look at if it had happened over say, New Zealand? Would we be jumping to conclusions about who was to blame? I know that jumping to conclusions is the only exercise Mike Pompeo gets, but this has the potential to spiral out of control.
I used Wikipedia to go back over the history of Boeing’s Mechanical Problems. I usually wouldn’t use Wikipedia. Except for this research, it was quicker to find articles I remember my late parents talking about. It was like taking over a hundred articles and placing them in one spot. Boeing has a history of questions of safety protocols (Laris, 2019). They have been fined $3.9 million dollars by the U.S. Government (Levin, 2019). This was a different incident but it helps to establish a pattern.
There have been numerous arrests of Boeing employees according to Mrs. Anna Yukhananov, for drug use while on the clock and building planes our military uses (Yukhananov, 2019). What in the hell is going on with Boeing? Let drug users build planes our military flys into wars and often engages the enemy with? Don’t we owe our military better than that? I say yes. According to her article at Reutiers.com, there were 37 current and former employees trying to buy or sell painkillers (Yukhananov, 2019). So we shouldn’t be surprised at the endless list I found on Wikipedia of the planes crashing involving Boeing planes.
The Wiki list goes all the way back to July 19, 1970, with the Boeing plane that crashed in Bristol Bay Alaska. They can’t say Iran was involved because their puppet was running Iran. We had a fairly civil relationship with the U.S.S.R., they couldn’t be blamed. North Korea didn’t have the ability to do anything like that. Japan didn’t have the desire to reignite WW2 fury. So it was mechanical problems were to blame. July 5, 1972, there was a Pacific Southwest that got hijacked for $800,000 and a ride to the U.S.S.R. Okay! That is probably one of the strangest stories I have read. The plane was landed in San Fransico where law enforcement stormed the plane and killed the two hijackers along with one passenger. The list included the Aloha incident when a top section ripped off of a plane. I remember this one and as a kid thinking, “I will never fly on a Boeing.” I will leave you a link to the list because it’s endless.
The bottom line is that Boeing was responsible for each of these “accidents” and/or “incidents” with their planes. They made the planes, therefore, they are solely to blame for the one that went down a couple days ago over Iran, and the ones which Peru’s Air Force and Mexico’s Air Force had problems with. They are on the list. The idea that the plane went down because of Iran is laughable since our loving government shot down a plane with Iranian citizens in 1988 during the Iran-Iraq War. It was written off as a causality of war. I found this article from Time Magazine. I don’t usually use this but once again I was looking for a record of mechanical errors by Boeing and they popped up. I also remember some of them listed. We as a society should start holding Boeing responsible for their piss poor work. Especially, when it comes to planes that are flown by the military. Ours and the military of other countries. They are spouses, parents, and adult children just like our military is.
References:
Laris, M. (2019). Long before the Max disasters, Boeing had a history of failing to fix safety problems. Washington Post, https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/trafficandcommuting/long-before-the-max-disasters-boeing-had-a-history-of-failing-to-fix-safety-problems/2019/06/26/b4f5f720-86ee-11e9-a870-b9c411dc4312_story.html
Levin, A. (2019). Boeing Hit With $3.9 Million Fine for Alleged Safety Lapses. Bloomberg News. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-12-06/boeing-hit-with-3-9-million-fine-for-alleged-safety-violations
Time (2014). Past Attacks on Commercial Airliners. https://time.com/3002171/malaysia-airlines-ukraine-crash-airliners-shot-down/
Wikipedia, List of Accidents and Incidents Involving the Boeing 737. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_accidents_and_incidents_involving_the_Boeing_737
Yukhananov, A. (2011). Boeing arrest points to U.S. workplace drug problems. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-crime-boeing-abuse/boeing-arrest-points-to-u-s-workplace-drug-problems-idUSTRE79008O20111001
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