looks like you can't off two whistleblowers a week before the literal door falls off one of your airliners in midflight without taking a couple HITS to your BOTTOM LINE
Some of those checkouts are focusing on the potential effect of helium leaks, five of which have been detected on Starliner to date. One was spotted before launch but eventually deemed to pose little risk to full mission success. Four more have now been discovered while Starliner is in space, but that isn't necessarily cause for alarm.
vague memory but didn't they do a PR stunt where a Boeing executive took a 737 flight sitting in the same seat where the door blew out and she looked kind of nervous
The common misconception is that she was nervous about the plane breaking, but in a later statement she said she was nervous because she had to sit in the same seat the poors have used
"Low Boeing sales embolden China, which is why we must give Boeing an additional tax credit for every passenger killed aboard their aircraft. This will break the unfortunate link between passenger fatalities and low sales being caused by China's anticompetitive non-market behavior."
I have to travel by air soon, and I'm so, so scared. Likely it'll be fine, the total probability of a catastrophe happening on any given flight is still super low, but jeez, it sucks that I'm afraid of a thing we had pretty much totally sorted like 20 years ago. Capitalism can eat my whole ass