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FRONTLINE: Film Audio Track | PBS

Boeing's Fatal Flaw (2024)

FRONTLINE: Film Audio Track | PBS

FRONTLINE

Pbs, Tv & Film, Wgbh, Documentaries, Frontline

4.82.3K Ratings

🗓️ 15 March 2024

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

As new questions arise about Boeing’s troubled 737 Max jet, FRONTLINE and The New York Times update an award-winning investigation into the design, oversight and production of a plane that was involved in two crashes that killed 346 people.

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0:00.0

Thanks for listening to the Frontline Audicast, the enhanced audio version of our documentaries.

0:07.0

We also produce a podcast, The Frontline Dispatch, available wherever you get your podcasts.

0:13.0

Right now, here is the audio cast of Boeing's Fatal Flaw,

0:17.0

updated after its original broadcast in September 2021. The plane suddenly lost a section of its fuselage mid-flight.

0:45.0

An FAA paddle is blast in the aircraft company.

0:48.0

Amid new problems with Boeing 737 Max.

0:52.0

Where was the oversight to make sure the most critical pieces were there?

0:56.0

A special update to the award-winning investigation with the New York Times into the problem-plaked

1:01.2

airplane.

1:02.2

Lion Air flights JC 610 went missing for radio.

1:05.0

And then the second plane crash.

1:06.0

Ethiopia crashed minutes after taking off.

1:09.0

This was going to be an existential crisis for the company.

1:12.0

They had no idea how powerful MCAS was.

1:15.1

FAA's oversight was sorely lacking.

1:18.4

The mounting pressure on Boeing.

1:20.1

This was supposed to be one of the most highly scrutinized planes in the world.

1:24.0

Here you are with another incident that was risking passengers lives.

1:28.0

We're going to approach this, number one, acknowledging our mistake.

1:31.0

Now on frontline, it had direct echoes of everything we had been

1:35.7

reporting on years ago. Boeing's fatal flaw. Frontline is made possible by contributions to your PBS station from viewers like you.

1:48.0

Thank you.

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