As a side note. Recently went to couple estate sales and snagged some really nice luggage sets. You know the Samsonite kind.

That’s your opinion. But, it happens all the time. Storage programs are common at the desert yards— planes come in, off lease, get stored for weeks, months or years... then get re-deployed.

Just on so many fronts (whether his fault initially or not) he’s just a disaster:

re: “It’s mainly a question of how fucking stupid his board wants to look before we get there.”

This is far from the first time Boeing has place blame squarely on the pilots when they screw up. It's not even the first time that the 737 has gone on a killing spree because of a design flaw. 

I believe ultimately (this is far worse than the VW Dieselgate thing in my book) there will be criminal charges filed. MCAS is so brain-dead it makes a poor control systems engineer’s heart break... who would implement such a crock of manure and call it a “control system”?

There is some damn-fine aluminum glistening out in the sun. It may yet rise valiantly from it’s slumbers.

Didn't he say it was pilot error and hen we find out Boeing never gave a training session because of cost? Geeze. Why isn't he in jail for involuntary manslaughter charges? 

It does remind me of the classic Tesla response of “You are clearly instructed to keep your hands on the wheel at all times, in all situations, always-always-always when on AutoPilot”, every time an AP car randomly veers into concrete or a fire truck it didn’t see.

The customer is always wrong!

I’m still thinking that Boeing’s reaction to the 787 battery fuck-up told us all we needed to know about their fixation on placing “meeting shipment goals” over “meeting safety goals.”.

Actually, the -8 and -900's are no longer in production. That model was phased out in the spring.  My wife actually worked on the line that built the last one. It’s all Max’s, all the time.  They’re still flying production flights, by the way.  No pax, just Boeing production pilots.

Yeah, this is it exactly. Lion Air was tragic enough but, rather than taking the time to ACTUALLY FIGURE OUT what had happened, Boeing instead said “too bad. They should read the manual and it will be fine.”

That was the sad part, SOOO quick to blame the pilots .. “chain of events” — yeah, which was greed->flawed systems->deaths — all of which are BOEING fault, not the people who were not even told about the hack they decided was “sufficient” to enable them to make money easier and quicker, at the expense of human life.…

He was out early-and-loud with “blame the pilots”... and for that alone, he needs to go. He owns the culture and with 350 dead people, it’s not good crisis-management to ‘blame the victims’.

The huge stash is over at Victorville, although Mojave has some big iron still.

Yup.  The 200 is the DC-3 of jet liners.

One would assume there are a few in charter service, mothballs or the boneyard capable of being returned to mainline service.

Thousands out in the Mojave desert waiting for this very moment...

How Muilenburg still has his job is beyond me. Even from a purely financial standpoint this has been a massive disaster for the company and shareholders, and then you layer on the moral failures and human lives lost and his head should have been on the block months ago.