Boeing’s Broken Dreams

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🗓️ 3 January 2020

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

This week, “The Daily” is revisiting some of our favorite episodes of 2019 and checking in on what has happened since they first appeared. Today, we return to our conversation with the whistle-blower John Barnett, known as Swampy, about what he said were systemic safety problems at Boeing. After two 737 Max jet crashes killed a total of 346 people and a federal investigation left the company in crisis, we ask: Is something deeper going wrong at the once-revered manufacturer? Guest: Natalie Kitroeff, a business reporter for The New York Times, spoke with John Barnett, a former quality manager at Boeing. For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily. Background reading:Boeing successfully lobbied to reduce government oversight of airplane designs, allowing them to regulate faulty engineering internally.A congressional investigation last fall asked what Boeing knew before the two crashes.

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0:00.0	Hey there, it's Michael. This week, the Daily is revisiting some of our favorite episodes of the year
0:06.6	Listening back and then hearing what's happened in the time since
0:11.1	Today the whistleblowers at Boeing
0:14.7	It's Friday January 3rd
0:18.0	Boeing was the place. I mean they were the place to work, you know and oh my god
0:24.7	It was amazing
0:26.9	When I put that Boeing shirt on
0:28.9	How much of puffed out?
0:32.4	You know I'd walk into the store around here and they're like oh you work for Boeing that is awesome and
0:38.0	Thank y'all so much and you just mean so much to this area, you know, wow and it was just awesome and it's just
0:47.8	Ah
0:51.0	We don't have any more here nobody does. I mean everybody I talked to and Boeing they're embarrassed to work there most time
0:58.0	It's just this is going
1:01.6	Did you ever expect to
1:05.0	feel
1:06.7	The way that you feel about the company now? Oh
1:10.7	Absolutely not
1:12.8	Natalie I still lose sleep every night. I just
1:16.8	I guess I don't know I got a conscience or something. I don't know but but I just you know I had to get it
1:22.7	I have to get a drift. That's why I keep telling my story somebody's got to step in and get it to drift
1:27.2	I
1:29.6	From the New York Times I'm Michael Barbaro. This is the Daily
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