Can Boeing get back on track?
FT News Briefing
Forhecz Topher
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 9 January 2024
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
Shares in Boeing and supplier Spirit AeroSystems tumbled after a mid-flight accident, and tens of thousands of Afghan women and girls have been able to join online study programmes despite the Taliban’s ban on female education.
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Boeing and supplier shares fall after mid-flight Alaska Airlines accident
Afghan women and girls flock online to evade Taliban curbs on female education
Biden says he is pressing Israel to ‘significantly get out’ of Gaza
Israel says it has destroyed Hamas as a fighting force in north Gaza
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| 0:00.0 | The UK's energy partner. |
| 0:06.0 | Learn more at equinore. |
| 0:10.0 | Good morning from the financial times. Today is Tuesday, January 9th, and this is your |
| 0:17.0 | FT news briefing. Boeing is reeling after Friday's mid-flight accident. |
| 0:22.8 | Joe Biden is pushing Israel to get out of Gaza. |
| 0:26.0 | And the Taliban is preventing Afghan women |
| 0:28.4 | from accessing formal education. |
| 0:30.6 | But that hasn't stopped them from learning. |
| 0:33.0 | You've got some large established organizations that have long been present in online learning |
| 0:39.5 | and they're now providing access to many thousands of women. |
| 0:45.0 | I'm Mark Filipino and here's the news you need to start your day. Boeing is under pressure again, this time after a door of an Alaska Airlines plane blew out a few days ago. |
| 1:09.0 | Similar planes, part of Boeing's 737 Max series, have been grounded all over the world while they undergo inspections. |
| 1:16.0 | Boeing shares fell 8% yesterday. |
| 1:19.0 | Here to talk to us about what this means for the aircraft manufacturer is the F.T.'s Claire Bushy. |
| 1:24.0 | Hey Claire. Hey, how are you? I'm doing all right, so get us up to speed. Do we know what caused the door to fly off the plane? |
| 1:32.1 | Well, we don't know what has gone wrong. |
| 1:35.0 | There's kind of three buckets of what it could be. |
| 1:40.0 | The first and worst bucket is that it could be a design or engineering flaw |
| 1:45.8 | because that would mean it would be Boeing's responsibility and also it means that |
| 1:52.4 | the flaw is likely to be replicated many, many more times within the fleet, |
| 1:58.5 | but people are sort of not leaning towards that explanation. |
| 2:02.9 | Bucket number two is manufacturing |
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