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HN recommends it as an entertaining and thorough overview of Boeing's decline whenever the company's safety problems are in the news.
John Oliver's Last Week Tonight segment on Boeing, tracing how it went from a quality engineering company to one tied to crashes and 'quality escapes'. It covers the 737 MAX failures and employee concerns about safety.
“There is a very nice episode of Last Week Tonight by John Oliver diving into it” (HN, 2024)
I hope the company had no involvement in this. It would be bit futile given such a large audience has seen their employees state they won't fly in the aircraft they build. [1] 3,716,935 views 4 days ago and Blancolirio's assorted incident reports [2] [1] - [this video] [video][32 mins][john oliver] [2] - [link]
Widely viewed segment where employees say they won't fly Boeing.
> Apple should be another Boeing, a company that exists to embody its regulation That is pretty funny because you're right, Apple is becoming another Boeing - a profit-above-all-else corporate asshole and just like Boeing what we need is a hell of a lot more regulation, not less: [this video]
Kayak let's you select: [this video] Also historical flight data like on [link] Will let you go back hundreds of flights, and find the airplane the airline uses most of the time, for that flight.
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