Turbulence at Boeing

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🗓️ 31 January 2024

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Boeing’s 737 Max 9 planes are flying again after the recent door-plug blowout incident that had kept the planes grounded for nearly a month. But the company’s troubles are far from over. Over the past two decades, Boeing’s reputation has been in decline. On the show today, Peter Robison, author of “Flying Blind: The 737 MAX Tragedy and the Fall of Boeing,” explains where things went wrong for America’s aviation giant, the 737 Max’s potential fate, and whether Boeing’s crisis could make way for a new competitor in the commercial aerospace industry.

Plus, would you let Elon Musk implant a chip in your brain? And the one-two punch at UPS.

Here’s everything we talked about today:

- “How Did a Boeing Jet End Up With a Big Hole?” from The New York Times

- “Boeing, not Spirit, mis-installed piece that blew off Alaska MAX 9 jet, industry source says” from The Seattle Times

- “The Crash of Two Airplanes and the Crisis at Boeing” from The New York Times

- “Boeing’s MAX production issues ripple across aerospace industry” from Reuters

- “Boeing’s latest 737 Max incident might not lose it much business” from Marketplace

- “Elon Musk Says Neuralink Has Implanted Brain Chip in Human” from The Wall Street Journal

- “Business Groups Sue California to Block Climate Disclosures” from The Wall Street Journal

- “UPS to Cut 12,000 Jobs and Mandate Return to Offices Five Days a Week” from The Wall Street Journal

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0:00.0	one,
0:02.0	I love that. I say it and things happen.
0:05.0	If only life is like that.
0:07.0	Hey everybody, I'm Kai Rizdahl.
0:09.0	Welcome back to Make Me Smart, where none of us is as smart as all of us.
0:12.0	Yeah, I'm Nova Sopho, filling in for Kimberly Adams.
0:16.0	Thanks for joining us all of you out there today.
0:18.0	Tuesday, January 30th is the day.
0:20.0	We're talking about what's happening at Boeing today the company's
0:23.6	737 max nine planes are flying again after the recent door plug
0:27.5	incident a very scary one Boeing's troubles go way beyond that door plug
0:31.8	though don't they they do indeed and so that's
0:34.5	what we're going to talk about today. We're going to talk about this
0:36.2	a ginormous company in the American manufacturing ecosystem, this
0:40.3	ginormous company in the American economy as a whole and also its role in
0:44.5	global commercial aviation where it is one of two. So we're gonna get Peter
0:49.5	Robeson on the line to talk with us. He's an investigative reporter for
0:52.6	Bloomberg. He's also the author of Flying Blind, the 737 Max Tragedy and the
0:56.6	fall of Boeing. Peter, welcome to the program. Thanks for having me.
1:00.9	All right, so look, your book was obviously written before the latest Boeing challenge.
1:05.4	It was challenges.
1:07.0	You were writing about the earlier two mishaps with 737 maxes, which killed something
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