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Why Boeing’s Willful Blunder Is Gluttony’s Horror Story
The spooky season is usually anchored by the delightfulness of feigning the fear that gives costumed little ones the joy of not comprehending just how scary it’s going to get, when they’re old enough to replace candy corn with gluten-free sweets that their parents couldn’t afford.
But for me, the absolute horror began months earlier, when on a bright Sunday morning on March 10, 2019, the unfathomable breaking news about Ethiopian Airlines 302 tarnished my timeline.
The terrifying details filtered in throughout the day, but the glaring evidence was the utterly violent way in which the 737 Max 8 crashed into the earth, with incredible force that reduced the jetliner and its occupants to pebbled debris.
Viral images of the crash site delivered the graphicness of what transpired, as bereaved relatives stationed at the location of the plane’s scheduled arrival, Jomo Kenyatta International Airport, Nairobi, Kenya, had to contend with the unthinkable, unfolding instantaneously.
As information flowed in, it was becoming increasingly clear that the gruesomeness of this plane crash disturbingly matched the death flight of Lion Air 610, that plunged into the Java Sea on October 29, 2018, shortly after takeoff.
