Boeing vs Airbus - An Unholy Alliance | 4

Business Wars

Wondery

History, Business, David Brown, Management

4.6 • 13.2K Ratings

🗓️ 15 January 2020

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

It’s the late 1980s and following the A320 crash at the Habsheim Air Show in eastern France, the safety of Airbus’s computerized flight system is being called into question. But Boeing’s got troubles too. Airlines aren’t warming to its latest product proposal, it’s losing market share, and Airbus is plotting a strike against its iconic 747 jumbo jet. So with the pressure mounting, the American giant is preparing a series of a high-risk manoeuvres designed to outwit the European competition and defend its status as the king of commercial aircraft.

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0:00.0	Hey, prime members, you can listen to Business Wars Add Free on Amazon Music.
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0:07.0	It's June 1988.
0:16.2	And in Eastern France, Airbus Senior Vice President Bernard Ziegler looks Captain Michelle Aslin
0:22.1	up and down.
0:23.7	The two men are in a meeting room in Malau's airport.
0:26.8	They are still absorbing the shock of how yesterday's A320 air show stunt went tragically
0:32.0	wrong.
0:33.4	Miraculously, just three of the 130 passengers died in the crash after the jet missed the
0:38.9	runway slammed into a forest and burst into flames.
0:42.4	Now, investigators must determine whether the crash was due to human error or mechanical
0:47.9	failure.
0:48.9	Ziegler gently props Captain Aslin for an explanation.
0:53.7	Michelle, what happened?
0:56.5	The shaken Air France pilot stares at the man who masterminded the A320's computerized
1:01.6	fly-by-wire flight control system.
1:04.2	A tried to climb to avoid the trees, but the plane blocked me.
1:10.0	The computers caused the crash.
1:12.8	Ziegler says nothing.
1:14.3	He's seen the footage on TV.
1:16.7	It looks to him like the A320 worked just as it should.
1:20.8	And Aslin mis-timed his stunt.
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