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FBI tells Alaska Airlines passengers they may be 'victim of a crime.' Here's the latest on Boeing's ongoing problems.
Yahoo News ^ | Mar 23 2024 | Katie Mather

Posted on 03/23/2024 8:25:33 AM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege

The FBI's recent letters to passengers on the January Alaska Airlines flight indicate that the DOJ's investigation into Boeing is ramping up.

The FBI is investigating the Alaska Airlines flight in January that saw a door plug blow off the plane midflight — and has told passengers they may be “a possible victim of a crime.”

🚨 What just happened? The incident took place on a Boeing 737 Max 9 plane, which allegedly had missing bolts that contributed to the door plug blowout. The panel flew off while the aircraft was at an altitude of about 16,000 feet.

Days after the blowout, dozens of passengers from the flight filed lawsuits against Boeing. In March, Boeing and Alaska Airlines separately denied legal responsibility — despite Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun telling CNBC that the incident was “our mistake” — and asked for the cases to be dismissed.

Mark Lindquist, an attorney representing 27 of the passengers, told CNN that his clients started receiving the letters from the FBI’s Seattle office on March 19.

The investigation adds to the growing list of legal issues Boeing is facing. The Federal Aviation Administration and the National Transportation Safety Board have also launched their own probes into the company, which is one of the world’s largest aerospace manufacturers.

⚖️ Boeing had problems for years. Why are they being investigated only now?

“We’ve known [about Boeing] for five years,” Mark Pegram, father of one of the Ethiopian Airlines flight victims, told NPR in March. “I think the rest of the world is finally waking up to it, that these weren’t just isolated incidents.”

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: boeing
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1 posted on 03/23/2024 8:25:33 AM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Bogus counterfeit fasteners is my guess.

L


2 posted on 03/23/2024 8:27:08 AM PDT by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Boeing + McDonnell-Douglass + DEI

What could go wrong?


3 posted on 03/23/2024 8:29:41 AM PDT by brownsfan (It's going to take real, serious, hard times to wake the American public.)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

If Nikki had somehow won the GOP nomination, with her prior contacts to Boeing, you know her fickle friends in the media would have gone after her tooth and nail about this. And the effeminate punchback from Frum, Kristol, French, McMuffin, and Linda would be to no avail.


4 posted on 03/23/2024 8:29:59 AM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear (What is left around which to circle the wagons?action )
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Boeing is the victim of corporate stupidity, nothing more.

Garland is ramping this into a criminal gig so he can squeeze Boeing. He’s a Bolshevik.


5 posted on 03/23/2024 8:32:39 AM PDT by Regulator (It's fraud, Jim)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

FBI: You may be a victim of a crime and not even know it.
CDC: You may have a deadly disease and not even know it.


6 posted on 03/23/2024 8:33:33 AM PDT by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Disaster. This is horrible.


7 posted on 03/23/2024 8:35:51 AM PDT by neverevergiveup
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To: brownsfan

I think the inference is that it was sabotage.....which is a criminal act.

The problem I have is the source if this story.


8 posted on 03/23/2024 8:36:19 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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To: brownsfan

DEI = Didn’t Earn It. Pass it on


9 posted on 03/23/2024 8:42:07 AM PDT by ponygirl (Stay gold.)
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To: bk1000

The FIB has been running crimes against America for a while now.


10 posted on 03/23/2024 8:42:22 AM PDT by Paladin2
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To: brownsfan

Anything + DEI will eventually equal crap.


11 posted on 03/23/2024 8:42:59 AM PDT by Dutch Boy (The only thing worse than having something taken from you is to have it returned broken. )
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To: V_TWIN

That was my inference as well . . . “victim of a crime” suggests sabotage. Use of counterfeit or substandard parts is another possibility, but the bolts were actually missing.


12 posted on 03/23/2024 8:43:15 AM PDT by Blurb2350 (posted from my 1500-watt blow dryer)
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To: ponygirl
DEI = Didn’t Earn It. Pass it on

Thats spot on! Passing it on 👍

13 posted on 03/23/2024 8:49:26 AM PDT by broken_clock (Go Trump! Still praying.)
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To: ponygirl
DEI = Didn’t Earn It

I am stealing that one....

14 posted on 03/23/2024 8:51:26 AM PDT by EVO X ( )
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Sounds like Boeing hasn’t been sending Rat Party Headquarters enough $$$.


15 posted on 03/23/2024 8:54:16 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Proudly Clinging To My Guns And My Religion)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

For readers who do not already know...

A couple weeks ago, Boeing told the FAA they cannot find ANY paper work or ANY records for the modification that blew out the window!


16 posted on 03/23/2024 8:54:30 AM PDT by zeestephen (Trump "Lost" By 43,000 Votes - Spread Across Three States - GA, WI, AZ)
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To: Lurker

It could be that. But it could also be just a shoddy workforce/manufacturing-management problem, too. Boeing may have also been covering up this problem and is working with the FBI to put the blame on fake parts, etc.

I doubt we’ll ever get the truth. Follow the money.


17 posted on 03/23/2024 8:54:51 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: broken_clock
DEI = Didn’t Earn It! Pass it on!
18 posted on 03/23/2024 8:55:17 AM PDT by Grampa Dave ((“Surrender often means wisely accommodating to what is beyond our control.” — Sylvia Boorstein.))
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To: ponygirl

That’s really good. Ima steal that! Oops, I just did! :0)


19 posted on 03/23/2024 8:55:54 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: ponygirl
Most excellent. I'm alien to any social media presence, but a search reveals that the creator of Dilbert - Scott Adams - apparently has gone viral with that one this week:
Scott Adams
@ScottAdamsSays

Whoever came up with "Didn't Earn it" as the description of DEI might have saved the world.

Normally, the clever alternative names people use to mock the other side's policy are nothign but grin-worthy.

This one could collapse the whole racist system. it's that strong.

8:26 PM - Mar 21, 2021 - 954.2K Views

https://www.rudeawakening.info/posts/dei-didnt-earn-it
20 posted on 03/23/2024 9:01:22 AM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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