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I will reserve my judgement but Boeing can’t catch a break.


Sure they can, they're contracted to design America's next-generation F-47 fighter jet!

And hell, after the sexy beast they call the X-32 I can't see why you wouldn't want their designs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_X-32


And Air Force One? Unless Qatari one gets its spot.


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when will the chinese enter that market? super cheap planes for everyone!


They are in the market but they depend on engines and other components manufactured elsewhere...

https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Aerospace-Defense-Industrie...


They have, but the only potential Dreamliner competitor on the horizon, the C929, won't enter service until 2030 at the earliest.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comac#Products


One of the few things China can’t produce as well as the west are commercial jet engines.


Serious response: COMAC, the "Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China" (1) are working on it, but the competitor C929 aircraft (2) is not expected before 2030.

And they have produced smaller aircraft (3), but but the numbers produced so far are not impressive.

In other words, you're correct that it's not "if" but "when". And that it's a hard task, but they are working on it. The Jet engines seem to be the major hurdle.

1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comac

2) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comac_C929

3) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comac_C919


Temu is in a great position to enter this market. Being deeply connected to the supplier networks, they could easily put together a plane and become a competitor to Boeing.


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You have absolutely no idea what caused this crash (which looks a lot like a bird strike) and yet you’re calling for people to be jailed.


I don’t know why people are always so quick to say whistleblowers are being purposely murdered.

At any rate we need to wait to understand the details of this crash, so far sounding like engine failure possibly due to bird strikes.


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“Now you know why.” - why even respond like this? You took some general statistics not specific to the population of people who are whistleblowers and just matter of factly make it a truth. It’s about as ridiculous as saying the person is murdered without any proof which I guess aligns with your thought process.

Being a whistleblower is ostracizing. Your colleagues and friends might no longer associate with you. It may put you in financial and family stress. You are in the news, you need to testify potentially. Sounds like a high stress situation.

I don’t know what is fact or fiction in this case but I can also assume some percentage of the population that do decide to become a whistleblower may also have other stresses or crises going on that maybe further their motivation to become a whistleblower. I say this cautiously because I don’t know this case specifically.


>"Now you know why.” - why even respond like this?

Because you wrote "I don't know why".

>Being a whistleblower is ostracizing. [...]

Sure! That's already factored in the suicide statistic.


The why respond like this is because you lack citations and provided an opinion that is not intuitive. Enlighten us instead of speaking like it’s all fact and share sources. You only stated suicide rates in the over 60 group and did not mention whistleblowers. You are again speaking on such authority without citing your supposed well known data.

I have looked before and have never seen specific studies on suicide rates in whistleblower groups but there is an awful lot of studies suggesting higher rates of depression and suicidal thoughts. Again I don’t know this case well but until there is evidence of murder it feels like MAHA feelings instead of science. I can think of a number of cases in recent history where the whistleblower has committed suicide, everytime people talk about it being murder but zero proof. Happy to be corrected but also tired of conspiracies.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6604402

https://thesignalsnetwork.org/whistleblower-john-barnetts-li...




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