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Flying Blind

The 737 MAX Tragedy and the Fall of Boeing

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Flying Blind

By: Peter Robison
Narrated by: Feodor Chin
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Boeing's story is the corporate scandal that's transfixed the world like none since the bankruptcy of Enron and the BP oil spill.

In examining the history of the 737, a highly regarded plane that Boeing's new management degraded with cost-focused mandates, Flying Blind explores how Boeing skimped on testing in the race to match a competing plane from Airbus, outsourced software work to poorly paid graduates in India and convinced the US Federal Aviation Authority to put the MAX into service without requiring pilots to undergo simulator training.

Dramatically framed around the 737 MAX crashes, Flying Blind is the definitive exposé that for the first time tells the larger, decades-long story of how a corrupt corporate culture paved the way for the cataclysm.

©2021 Peter Robison (P)2021 Penguin Audio Business Ethics Engineering Science Workplace & Organisational Behaviour Aviation Business
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Great book about corporate greed and the demise of a once great company. Thoughts go out to the families….

Boeing got away with …..

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A story that need to be told, the 737-Max fiasco, sadly as a bunch of joined newspaper articles, it’s over done. The problem is that it that it’s written in way to make it fit leftest narratives. If only Boeing management were better people, CEOs shouldn’t get paid so much, if only it was like the good old days and still took as many people to build a plane from 1960 without any automation in 2015, only a unionised workforce can seemingly build a plane, every company that’s operated in America for more than 50 years must be run by racists, any regulation, no matter how costly or unproductive is good. Oh no, You can’t build another factory in the US and shift production out of Seattle, EVER!! - oh wait and since it’s so in vogue at the moment, it’s all Trumps fault - but the rot started with reagan!! You can’t make it up!!

Boeing made some really bad mistakes as chronicled in this book, however it get bogged down by being too political. It’s such a shame, there a good story to be told here, but unless your dyed in the wool liberal, you will find it hard going.

Case in point: Boeing is soo racist, because they suggested American based airlines have better safety standards than Indonesia. This book glosses over the fact that the lion air crash occurred after repeated malfunctions and “stick shakes” on the flight before
the accident, that were not properly diagnosed by ground flight management. Boeing is definitely at fault for the two disasters, but this book can’t help itself with casual racism references that don’t exist on the real world.

Peter Robison, I expected more from you, but it was a letdown. Next time stick to the facts and punish Boeing for their real misdeeds, not your leftist narrative!!

A sad over exaggeration of Boeings failures

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