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This is the result of corporate America not holding its executives personally accountable for gross negligence, and the unregulated monopolistic nature of a bunch of markets. It is well known in the industry that the whole fiasco regarding the 737 Max is caused by the acquisition of McDonnell-Douglas, and its shitty management that integrated with Boeing.
Who was held responsible for those 300 people dying? Who would have been for these guys? Who will be for the next accident?
Weird that the company used to have a safety culture before the acquisition - I just can't imagine an aircraft company wanting to throw that away when it's so valuable to customer trust.
Mergers of this type usually have one corporate culture win out over the other. In this case, Boeing's corporate culture lost out and with it, their safety culture.