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Viewsroom: Boeing’s struggles

Viewsroom

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4.458 Ratings

🗓️ 14 March 2019

⏱️ 21 minutes

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The U.S. aircraft maker is facing a crisis after a second crash involving an updated version of its workhorse 737 jet. There’s a financial hit to Boeing from countries grounding the plane; but there are geopolitical implications, too. Plus: China tries to stimulate its economy. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:29.9

Welcome to the Views Room, a podcast from Reuters Breaking Views.

0:33.4

I'm Jennifer Sabah.

0:35.0

This week we'll be tackling U.S. airplane maker Boeing's woes

0:38.5

and China's latest moves to stimulate the economy.

0:42.1

First, we'll turn to Boeing.

0:43.8

A tragic crash in Ethiopia, killing 157 people on board,

0:48.0

is a second catastrophe in six months

0:50.3

that involves the U.S. airplane maker's 737 Max 8 fleet.

0:56.2

Since Monday, a growing league of nations, including the United States, grounded the aircraft. Here to talk us through the corporate

1:01.4

and geopolitical reverberations are my colleagues. Tom Berkeley is in the studio with me in New York.

1:07.5

Hello, Tom. Hi, Jen. And on the line from London is Ed Cropley. Hello, Ed.

1:12.0

Hi. Okay. So, Tom, I want you to kind of set this up for us. This is the second big air crash that

1:19.6

involved this Boeing model and make, which is kind of extraordinary. So tell us what's happening and what are some of the problems that

1:30.4

we've kind of unearthed so far with this fleet. Well, the background of this is we've really had

1:37.7

a period of unprecedented safety in global aviation. And attention is really focused on sort of the

1:43.8

commercial competition between

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