Sweeping questions are only appropriate when the risk of sounding prejudiced is negated by hard facts. Therefore, this essay will hope to adduce fact-driven evidence to justify the poser: Is Boeing the New Union carbide?

By way of explanation, the question is prompted by some stark similarities between the tragic events in Bhopal in 1984 and the stomach-churning crash of a Boeing 787 Dreamliner in Ahmedabad.

In both cases, the story didn’t just remain focussed on technical failures but also brought renewed focus upon a culture of corporate impunity built on a sense of condescension for the law. This haughty disregard among the top brass at Union Carbide, the villain of Bhopal, and the Boeing corporation, the impugned in Ahmedabad, for regulations, was derived from the confidence that they were too big to be answerable to the law.

For those that may not be aware. In 1984, U.S. chemical manufacturing........

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