from WNYC Studios. I'm Brian Lehrer. This is my daily politics podcast. It's Tuesday, March 26th.

So with all the breaking news yesterday, the two Trump legal decisions in different New York

courtrooms, the U.S. changing course and allowing

a Gaza ceasefire resolution to pass at the UN Security Council. You might have missed this.

The CEO of Boeing, Dave Calhoun, announced his resignation. Now, if that sounds like a story

just for the business shows, it is much more than that in this case, because this resignation flows from a basic and frightening question for travelers in the United States and really the whole world. How safe is it right now to fly? You probably heard about the horror story incident in January when a door flew off a Boeing plane

after takeoff, and the only reason nobody died is said to be the lucky fact that no one was

sitting in the window seat in that exit row at the moment. If a passenger was there, especially

without a seatbelt on, it could have been fatal.

Even more recently, just this month, another Boeing plane went into a nosedive on a flight

between Australia and New Zealand.

Maybe you heard about that.

Fifty people were injured in that incident.

Two horrifying Boeing plane incidents so close together, and Boeing makes so many

of the world's commercial jet liners. Now, after the nosedive, Boeing then alerted airlines

about another potential safety problem having to do with switches on the back of the pilot's seat.

And earlier this month, a Boeing whistleblower on safety concerns,

a former employee named John Barnett,

was found dead just before he was scheduled to give a deposition

in a lawsuit against the company.

Now, his death has been reported as from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound,

but it still has drawn even more attention to Boeing's quality control problems and to John Barnett's lawsuit, alleging the

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