Slap on the wrist.

I'll save anyone else Googling it: A single new Boeing 737 costs around $100 million.

So it looks an awful fucking lot like they just paid off the FAA early this year, and in turn, the idiots running the show now simply said “ok, great, you can sign your own inspections again - wink wink nudge nudge”.

Mafia-style government is so fucking imbecilic it hurts

$3.1 million?? These must be some incredibly outdated laws that are being applied for that figure to be so low. Boeing planes will become the new Ford Pintos: it's cheaper to kill a few people than it is to fix their shit.

They could 100x this and it would still be chump change to Boeing

A whole 3 million! 😱 Don't spend it all at once!

Wow twenty cents

oh my god that's like, a fraction of one executive bonus! Or you know, nothing.

Don't expect it to improve anytime soon. Cost cutting initiatives are back on the menu! Standard corporate behavior of squeezing until something breaks.