Peter Robison with Dominic Gates: The unfolding of Boeing's 737 MAX crisis

The best-selling Boeing 737 plane took its first commercial flight in 1968. Since then, the aircraft has been updated and modified across four generations; the most recent being the 737 MAX, officially put into service in 2017. Not long after, in 2018 and 2019, two tragic crashes resulted in the deaths of 346 people, and flights of the 737 MAX were grounded for nearly two years. Today, with design revisions and additional training and maintenance requirements mandated by the FAA, the planes are again taking flight. But, as investigative journalist Peter Robison claims in his new book Flying Blind, that’s not the whole story. What really went wrong - not only with the 737 MAX but with the Boeing empire itself?
Drawn from exclusive interviews with current and former employees of Boeing and the FAA, industry executives and analysts, and family members of the crash victims, Robison’s research digs into the biggest and costliest crisis in Boeing’s history. In conversation with Seattle Times journalist Dominic Gates, Robison offers a cautionary tale of what can happen when corporations fall prey to the bottom-line thinking that can threaten industries and endanger lives.
Peter Robison is an investigative journalist for Bloomberg and Bloomberg Businessweek. He is a recipient of the Gerald Loeb Award, the Malcolm Forbes Award, and four “Best in Business” awards from the Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing. A native of St. Paul, Minnesota, with an honors degree in history from Stanford University, he lives in Seattle with his wife and two sons.
Dominic Gates is an Irish-American aerospace journalist for The Seattle Times, former math teacher, and Pulitzer Prize winner. He has been assigned to cover Boeing for The Times since 2003. Gates was a co-recipient of the 2020 Pulitzer Prize in National Reporting alongside Steve Miletich, Mike Baker, and Lewis Kamb for their coverage of the Boeing 737 MAX crashes and investigations.
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I would like to have seen this using the direct out from the mixer so you're not listening to just a great deal of echo from the room

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Lundy Bancroft wrote about a parable in his book, "Why does he DO that?" About domestic abuse. He's likening a guy and his neighbor debating about a tree shedding leaves on the other's property.
If the guy cuts the tree down, what does he have to do to make it right?
He has to admit fault WITHOUT blame or excuses. Or having to be prodded into it.
He has to do his best to find out what would make it right, do that, and not repeat what he did.
Just the basics. There's more, of course.
I couldn't believe they knew, hid/ignored it, then blamed the pilots, and pushed to get their planes back up. Lying the whole time.
They didn't do anything to sincerely tell them they're right to be mad or fogo 10 minutes of a ridiculous salary for the victim's benefit.
Particularly, when the stupid way of doing things (blaming the mechanics for the door popping open on DC-10s) didn't WORK.

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3m also made audio tape...