Another Take: Revisiting the Boeing 737 Max
The Take
Al Jazeera
4.7 • 748 Ratings
🗓️ 21 June 2025
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
Every Saturday, we revisit a story from the archives. This originally aired on January 30, 2024. None of the dates, titles, or other references from that time have been changed.
Weeks after Boeing came under fire for a near-catastrophic incident aboard one of its planes, Alaska Airlines 1282 was forced to make an emergency landing when part of its wall blew off mid-flight. It’s not the first time a 737 Max has had problems. So what’s being done?
In this episode:
Alex Macheras (@AlexInAir), Aviation Analyst, Host, On-Air with Dan and Alex
Episode credits:
This episode was updated by Amy Walters. The original production team was Ashish Malhotra, Fahrinisa Campana, Chloe K Li and our host Malika Bilal.
Our sound designer is Alex Roldan. Our engagement producers are Adam Abou-Gad and Vienna Maglio. Aya Elmileik is lead of audience engagement. Alexandra Locke is The Take’s executive producer, and Ney Alvarez is Al Jazeera’s head of audio.
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| 0:00.0 | Al Jazeera Podcasts. |
| 0:10.0 | Hi, it's Amy Walters, the senior producer with the take, back with another take, where we bring you episodes from the past. |
| 0:19.6 | Today, the investigation into the fatal crash of Air India Flight |
| 0:24.3 | 171 continues. The plane went down moments after taking off, killing 241 people on board and dozens |
| 0:34.6 | on the ground. One passenger survived. It was the first of its kind involving a Boeing |
| 0:41.9 | Dreamliner 787, but the model had previously faced scrutiny. In March 24, a former Boeing quality |
| 0:50.3 | manager was found dead under suspicious circumstances after voicing concerns about |
| 0:56.4 | the plane. Earlier that year, we covered problems with another Boeing plane, the 737 Max. Here's |
| 1:03.9 | that episode now. None of the dates or other references have changed from January 30th, |
| 1:10.6 | 2024, when it originally |
| 1:12.7 | aired. |
| 1:34.9 | Boeing 737 Max 9 planes are now back in the skies. |
| 1:42.4 | And if that plane sounds familiar, it might be because you heard about an incident on a flight earlier this month. |
| 1:44.6 | We'll just hear a big boom. |
| 1:46.6 | It was silent for like one second. |
| 1:51.4 | Twelve-year-old Josiah McCall and his mother were two of the passengers, |
| 1:54.1 | flying down the west coast of the U.S. |
| 1:59.9 | And then you would just feel and hear a lot of air going around, freezing cold air. |
| 2:07.8 | Barely five minutes into the trip, Josiah watched his phone and teddy bear get sucked out of the plane. |
| 2:12.7 | A refrigerator-sized part of the wall had blown off the Alaska Airlines jet. |
| 2:20.3 | Already at 16,000 feet, the pilot headed back for an emergency landing. The incident led to 10,000. |
| 2:24.3 | The incident led to 171 Boeing jets being grounded for weeks, and it wasn't the first time the 737 max has been kept out of the air. |
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