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Flying Blind
- The 737 MAX Tragedy and the Fall of Boeing
- Narrated by: Feodor Chin
- Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
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Summary
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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.
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- Adam Murfet
- 01-04-22
Incredible book but shocking
This is a truly shocking book that damns corporate America and its ability to show that money can cut red tape, influence and also corrupt all.
This is a shocking tale into how cutting corners, putting profit above safety, and how not having a good feedback culture does cost lives.
Incredibly well written and powerful.
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- yusuf
- 18-12-21
Boeing = psychotic management
For people who want to buy this to read along with the book, I can confirm it’s 100% word for word as written in the book.
A chilling account into the corruption and greed of Boeing and how they got away with Murder. 🩸
I’ve read a lot of books on psychology, and have watched countless hours of YouTube, to me all i could see where red flags of psychopaths running this company.
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- ian delaney
- 03-03-22
Important read
A must read for people who fly in Aeroplanes!
When the stock market beats safety.
I'm going to fly Airbus when I have the option
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- Anonymous User
- 07-10-24
Eye opening account of what has gone on!
I loved how it went deep into what went on and gave many different accounts.
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- Duncan Williamson
- 31-03-22
frightening
this could really be the business story of the last 100 years. flying blind is comprehensive and thorough and it combines history with the present and probably the future. a lot of people got away with a lot. the senior managers got away with their millions. the company got away with murder. it's a shocking story that is very well told and very well read.
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- Will
- 12-06-24
Still reeling
How nobody went to jail is beyond me?! Great historical overview and in depth analysis in addition to what a keen follower like myself would have already consumed via. mainstream reporting, podcasts and numerous Youtube videos.
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- T. Hodge
- 21-12-22
Sad
Sad to read Boeing’s fall . I have piloted the Death Jet many times and it is a lovely plane but how tragic that so many died due to the greed of corporate managers. This will continue to happen in the world as the Boeing case is merely a single example of the way money has become more important than human life. There are plenty more such examples in the world. Well narrated and very detailed.
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- Former Amazonfan
- 18-08-23
A good overall investigaton
Spoilt only by a couple of (thankfully brief) episodes of Trump Derangement Syndrome and some fawning references to establishment Covid pseudoscience. Otherwise very interesting.
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- Olly Buxton
- 21-12-21
a bit disappointing.
author wants to make a fairly standard case of corporate mismanagement into something far more than it sounds like it actually was. The constant political agenda is grating. And please - shareholder capitalism is no discredited idea of the 1970s: this is the fundamental insight of the Wealth of Nations. it is just that Jack Welch (and Boeing) were not especially good at understanding what was in the best interest of the shareholders.
there are much better indictments is Welch style corporate management than this.
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- Alex
- 04-01-23
good book but
editing issues, some sentences are clipped off at the start. the content is good though
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