The question shouldn’t be what could have done? The right question is what should we do now? If Boeing is going (and I don’t want to chase them out the door), let’s go after somebody else — Airbus, Bombardier, Embraer. We have the talent and infrastructure for world-class aerospace work. Let’s use it.

— Boeing historian T.M. Sell, writing for Crosscut (McBoeing’s dumb flight plan)