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A new book about the Boeing 737 MAX disaster exposes the company’s allergy to the truth.
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A new book about the Boeing 737 MAX disaster exposes the company’s allergy to the truth.
Peter Robison’s “Flying Blind” tells the full story of two air disasters and Boeing’s role in the crashes.
Boeing has long been synonymous with American enterprise — a company that had a hand in pioneering flight, moon landings, World War II bomber missions and more. But in 2018 and then again in 2019, Boeing’s newest feat of engineering — the 737 MAX airplane — crashed twice, the flights within five months of each other, leaving 346 people dead as a result.
The 737 MAX was grounded in 2019 after two deadly crashes exposed flaws pilots hadn't been told about. Journalist Peter Robison says Boeing cut costs and co-opted regulators in designing the craft.
The galling account of the 737 MAX Boeing tragedies. Review by John Carvill