Can Boeing turn it around?
The Inquiry
BBC
4.6 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 21 November 2024
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Aerospace giant Boeing has had big problems to overcome since the crashes of two of its 737 Max aircraft. Its situation was compounded this year with another safety scare and a strike losing it billions of dollars. It has a new CEO who has pledged to return the company to its engineering roots and away from cost cutting and in October, Boeing managed to raise 21bn US dollars by issuing new shares in the company. However, catching up on lost production will take time and money and financially the company is nowhere near out of the weeds.
Can Boeing regain the trust of regulators, airlines and passengers?
Contributors: Richard Aboulafia, AeroDynamic Advisory, a US aerospace consultancy Sharon Turlep, an aviation industry reporter at the Wall Street Journal Christine Negroni, an aviation journalist specialising in safety Scott Hamilton, aviation analyst
Presented by David Baker. Produced by Bob Howard. Researched by Matt Toulson. Edited by Tara McDermott. Mixed by David Crackles.
Image credit - Kevin Burkholder via Getty Images
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| 0:00.0 | On a winter's night in 1974, a crime took place that would obsess the nation. |
| 0:06.9 | It was an extraordinary news story. |
| 0:09.1 | The story of an aristocrat, Lord Lucan, who's said to have killed the family Nanny, |
| 0:13.7 | mistaking her for his wife, then somehow just disappeared. |
| 0:18.0 | One of the great mysteries in English criminal history. |
| 0:20.7 | We're still looking for Lucan. |
| 0:22.1 | It's honestly one of the most powerful stories of my lifetime. |
| 0:25.9 | I'm Alex von Tundselman. |
| 0:27.3 | This is The Lucan Obsession. |
| 0:29.2 | Listen on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:31.5 | Welcome to The Inquiry with me, David Baker. |
| 0:35.3 | Each week, one question, four expert witnesses, and an answer. |
| 0:50.0 | Think back to the last time you got on an airplane. |
| 0:53.5 | Did you notice who made it? |
| 0:55.7 | Probably not, unless you're one of those passengers who studies the safety card in the seat pocket. |
| 1:02.6 | But chances are, the plane you were on was made by either Boeing or Airbus. |
| 1:09.2 | Between them, these two huge companies, |
| 1:12.4 | one based in the US, the other in Europe, |
| 1:15.3 | dominate the commercial aviation industry, |
| 1:18.5 | producing nearly 90% of the new planes that are in our skies. |
| 1:23.5 | Airbus is on a role, |
| 1:25.7 | with airlines around the world snapping up their planes. But Boeing has |
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