Originally Posted by
The Lev
We are reading this rather differently. I don't see the word "apology" anywhere in the statement and I don't think Boeing legal would allow that - it would be a de facto acknowledgement that the infallible Boeing did in fact do something wrong. Dennis Muilenberg and Boeing are trying for some belated positive PR to overcome the negative narrative that Boeing is callous and doesn't care about the families and communities of those affected by the two crashes.
...and I definitely am not reading an apology to those indirectly impacted by the groundings into any of this - I do see an acknowledgement that confidence in Boeing has eroded and they need to fix that.
It does read more along the lines of....
Some bad things happened and an aircraft we built was involved.
This is all very sad. We are sad, the families are sad the community is sad.
We want to be good citizens so we are going to donate $100 M (over some undefined time period) to charities in the communities that are impacted.