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		rootusrootus on Jan 12, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Did a 1997 merger ruin Boeing? Up until recently there was also Bombardier, but it seems like they basically bankrupted themselves and ceded all of their commercial plane production to Airbus. Now they just do business jets.

lmm on Jan 12, 2024 [–]

They didn't bankrupt themselves, the US government (at Boeing's urging) bankrupted them.

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