Cloudy Ethics: Dilemmas in the Aviation Industry
The aviation industry must have a solid foundation of ethics. A faulty foundation of ethics can lead to incidents resulting in catastrophic consequences, and loss of life or limb. Boeing has been having major concerns of ethical dilemmas since the 1980s , " Boeing has been punished for an equally long list of ethical and criminal transgressions. They ranged from illegally snaring restricted Pentagon planning documents to stealing a rival’s rocket development plans (Pasztor, 2024)." Recently Boeing 737 Max had a cabin blowout that injured multiple passengers due to its obvious lack of quality control and integrity when it came to reporting defects or issues in its aircraft. Before this incident, 2 crashes of 2 Boeing 737 Max's resulted in the loss of 346 lives. It appears that over the years Boeing has been dodging their responsibility to maintain a high standard of products as well as taking accountability for the lack thereof. " As a result, Boeing’s leaders didn’...