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The Daily

The Whistle-Blowers at Boeing

The Daily

The New York Times

Daily News, News

4.3107.7K Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2019

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

After two crashes of Boeing 737 Max jets, regulators and lawmakers began asking whether competitive pressure may have led the company to miss safety risks, like an anti-stall system that played a role in both crashes. In reporting that story, our colleagues began to look into whether the problems extended beyond the 737 Max. Guest: Natalie Kitroeff, a business reporter for The New York Times, spoke with John Barnett, a former quality manager at Boeing. For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily. Background reading:In an industry where safety is paramount, concerns involving two crucial Boeing plane models — the 737 Max and the 787 Dreamliner — point to potentially systemic problems at the company.

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0:00.0

Boeing was the place, I mean they were the place to work, you know, and oh my God, it was

0:08.4

amazing when I put that Boeing shirt on, how much HIF puffed out, you know, I'd walk into

0:16.7

the store around here and they're like, oh you are for Boeing, that is awesome.

0:20.8

And thank y'all so much and you're just mean so much to this area, you know, and it was

0:26.4

just awesome. And it's just, we don't have any more here, nobody does. I mean everybody

0:38.2

I talked to in Boeing, they're embarrassed to work there, most don't. It's just, it's gone.

0:45.2

Did you ever expect to feel the way that you feel about the company now?

0:53.9

Oh absolutely not. Natalie, I still lose sleep every night. I just, I guess I don't know,

1:01.3

I got a conscience or something, I don't know, but I just, you know, I had to get it, I

1:06.3

have to get a drift. That's why I keep telling my story. Somebody's got to step in and get

1:10.0

it to drift.

1:13.2

From The New York Times, I'm Michael Barbaro. This is The Daily.

1:21.9

Indonesia's search and rescue agency says that a lion air passenger flight has crashed into the sea.

1:29.2

An Ethiopian airline's Boeing 737 traveling from Addis Ababa to Nairobi has crashed with death

1:35.6

reported. After the two crashes of Boeing's 737 Max Jets, regulators and lawmakers began asking

1:43.2

questions about whether the race to get that jet bill and the competitive pressure may have

1:49.8

led Boeing to miss safety risks in the plane's design. The FAA and Boeing say faulty sensors on

1:57.4

new 737 Max Jets can cause the plane to go into a steep dive. In reporting that story,

2:04.0

my colleague Natalie Kichoev began to look into whether that pressure extends beyond the 737 Max.

2:11.9

It's Tuesday, April 23rd.

2:29.2

Now, where does this story start?

2:31.1

In the wake of the two crashes of the 737 Max Jets, we began looking into whether that frenzied pace,

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