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What was Boeing through their heads? Emails show staff wouldn't put their families on a 737 Max over safety fears

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Re: How many other manufacturers?

Sadly, Dieselgate might be in a *worse* category. One study attributes 6800 premature deaths to diesel vehicles cheating on emissions requirements -- and that's just for the EU in the year 2015 alone.

Plane manufacturers tend to kill lots of people at once, which of course grabs headlines. Car manufacturers tend to kill lots of people one at a time and in VW's case, a little bit at a time, which tends to go unnoticed until somebody does the math. (Readers of Terry Pratchett's "Going Postal" will be familiar with this concept...).

(Citation: https://euobserver.com/health/137907)

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