Episode 147: Was the Ethiopian Airlines Crash of 2019 Sabotage — Not a Malfunction?March 10th, 2019. Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302, a brand-new Boeing 737 MAX 8, crashed six minutes after takeoff, killing all 157 people on board. It was the second 737 MAX crash in five months. The global fleet was grounded. What followed was one of the most damaging corporate scandals in aviation history — Boeing pleaded guilty to conspiracy to defraud the United States, paid $2.5 billion, and saw its stock collapse. No Boeing executive went to prison. Tonight we examine the documented record — and the questions that the documentary trail, for all its detail, still leaves open.This episode explores:* The MCAS system — what it was designed to do, why a single sensor triggered it, and why Boeing concealed its existence from regulators* The DOJ criminal process — what Boeing was found to have done, what it paid, and why victims' families rejected the settlement* The whistleblower deaths — John Barnett, who died in March 2024 while providing active testimony in Boeing litigation, ruled a suicide by investigators* The Ethiopian versus American investigation dispute — why the NTSB publicly disputed the Ethiopian report's conclusions about the crash* Boeing's 2025 door plug crisis and further whistleblower accounts — what they indicate about the systemic nature of the safety failures* The specific conspiracy question — whether the crashes were deliberately engineered versus the result of negligent concealment of a fatal design flawFor believers, the pattern of concealment, the whistleblower deaths, and the inadequate accountability form a picture too coherent to be mere negligence. For aviation safety investigators, the crashes are comprehensively explained by documented corporate failure without requiring deliberate intent.What is certain: 346 people died. Boeing concealed the system that killed them. No individual has gone to prison. And the aircraft is flying again.Keywords: Ethiopian Airlines crash conspiracy, Boeing 737 Max sabotage, Ethiopian Airlines 2019 truth, Boeing MCAS cover-up, John Barnett Boeing whistleblower death, Boeing criminal conspiracy, 737 Max concealment evidence, Boeing accountability failure, Ethiopian Airlines sabotage theory, Boeing crash deliberate

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