This is Jimi Lee Wirt, producer of the Ralph Nader Radio Hour.

Please note that this program was recorded just before the FAA ordered the Boeing 737 Max 8 grounded in the United States.

From the KPFK studios in Southern California, it's the Ralph Nader Radio Hour.

Stand up, stand up, you've been sitting right too long.

Welcome to the Ralph Nader Radio Hour. My name is Steve Sgrove and I'm a log of my co-host David Feldman. Hello, David.

Good morning.

And we just have the Man of the Hour Ralph Nader. Hello, Ralph.

Hello, everybody.

Well, we come to today's show with a heavy heart. The news was not good this weekend for the families of the victims of Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302,

which crashed shortly after takeoff and it has personal resonance for us because one of those victims was Ralph's great niece.

So we offer condolences to the entire extended family.

And we're going to deal with it this way. There have been concerns about this particular jet manufactured by Boeing ever since it came onto the market.

It's Boeing's best-selling jet.

And according to the New York Times, Southwest Airlines and American Airlines are the only two carriers in the United States that use the jet.

And they said they will continue to fly the plane.

Boeing flights have been grounded across the globe, but not in the United States.

And to help us sort all of this out, we welcome back aviation expert from Consumer Reports William McGee.

Mr. McGee was on the show a little less than a year ago talking about his new book Attention All Passengers.

The airline's dangerous descent and what you can do to reclaim our skies.

And we're lucky to get Mr. McGee today because he's been in great demand since this tragedy occurred.

That'll be the first half of the show.

In the second half of the show, we'll be talking to Coleman McCarthy, who is a journalist and a teacher and the founder of the Center for Teaching Peace.

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