LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Boeing will regret decisions

OPINION:

In what was later described as a “culture of concealment,” Boeing’s decision to keep its ill-fated 737 Max planes flying — regardless of indicators, including employee warnings, that they should be grounded and serious software glitches corrected — resulted in 346 ticket buyers suffering a most horrific death (“FAA clears Boeing 737 Max after flight-control system fixed,” Web, Nov. 18). Yet, couldn’t those same Boeing decision-makers and/or their young families also potentially be flying on one of this aircraft’s ill-fated flights?

Assuming the CEOs are not sufficiently foolish to believe their loved ones will somehow always evade repercussions related to these reckless decisions, I wonder whether the profit-focused part of a CEO’s nature is somehow uncontrollable.

It brings to mind the allegorical fox stung by the instinct-abiding scorpion while ferrying it across the river, leaving both to drown.

FRANK STERLE JR.

White Rock, British Columbia