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🗓️ 26 March 2024
⏱️ 34 minutes
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The CEO of Boeing, Dave Calhoun, announced he will step down this year amid a management scandal. Lori Aratani, reporter covering transportation issues for The Washington Post, breaks down what's going on at the fraught airline company and just how safe it is to fly.
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0:00.0 | It's the Brian Larra Show on WNYC. Good morning everyone. |
0:14.4 | So with all the breaking news yesterday, the two Trump legal decisions in different New York |
0:19.3 | courtrooms, the US changing course and allowing a Gaza Cease Fire Resolution to pass at the |
0:25.3 | UN Security Council, you might have missed this. The CEO of Boeing, Dave Calhoun, |
0:31.3 | announced his resignation. |
0:34.0 | Now if that sounds like a story just for the business shows, |
0:37.2 | it is much more than that in this case, |
0:39.4 | because this resignation flows from a basic and frightening question for travelers in the United States |
0:45.3 | and really the whole world. |
0:47.1 | How safe is it right now to fly? |
0:50.0 | You probably heard about the horror story incident in January when a door flew off a |
0:55.1 | Boeing plane after takeoff and the only reason nobody died is said to be the lucky fact that |
1:00.4 | no one was sitting in the window seat in that exit row at the moment if the |
1:05.7 | passenger was there especially without a seat belt on it could have been fatal. |
1:10.8 | Even more recently just just this month, another Boeing plane went into a nose dive |
1:16.7 | on a flight between Australia and New Zealand, maybe you heard about that, 50 people were injured in that incident, two horrifying Boeing plane |
1:25.6 | incident so close together and Boeing makes so many of the world's |
1:29.5 | commercial jetliners. Now after the nose dive, Boeing then alerted airlines about another |
1:36.4 | potential safety problem having to do with switches on the back of the pilot's seat. And |
1:42.4 | earlier this month a Boeing whistleblower on the back of the pilot's seat. |
1:42.5 | And earlier this month, a Boeing whistleblower on safety concerns, |
1:46.3 | a former employee named John Barnett, |
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