If this article is accurate, Boeing dismissed requests for information about its flawed 737 Max from Ethiopia (a "shithole country" in Africa), while providing detailed briefings to US airline firms--as a result of which, 157 Ethiopians may have died in a 737 Max crash. (Gift link)
Ethiopian Airlines appeared to foresee the deadly confusion its pilots would face if flawed software in the Boeing 737 Max failed. Boeing chose not to provide the guidance that the carrier was seeking...
Frontline did an excellent (and terrifying) episode about the 737 Max that touches upon the racist scapegoating re: Ethiopia and Malaysia:
YouTube video by FRONTLINE PBS | Official
That is both ghastly and unsurprising
And nothing will happen because the system is bought and paid for
A problem for me with the prison-abolition movement is that reading about something like this--wealthy corporate executives' deliberate malfeasance apparently contributing to the deaths of scores of ordinary people--makes me want to remove those people from society for a long time.
"Only" 9 Ethiopians perished on that flight. The rest of the victims were from all over the world, including 8 American victims.
I still think of this crash and feel especially sad, it could have been avoided and it was just horrific. May they never be forgotten.