What Boeing Knew

The Daily

The New York Times

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4.4 • 102.8K Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2019

⏱️ 28 minutes

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In testimony before a House committee on Wednesday, Dennis A. Muilenburg, Boeing’s chief executive, said, “If we knew everything back then that we know now, we would have made a different decision.” Congress is investigating two crashes of Boeing 737 Max jets which killed 346 people, cost the company billions of dollars and raised new questions about government oversight of aviation. So what did Boeing executives know about the dangers of the automated system implicated in the crashes — and when did they know it? Guest: Natalie Kitroeff, who covers the economy for The Times. For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily. Background reading: Boeing successfully lobbied to reduce government oversight of airplane design.Evidence presented to House investigators on Wednesday revealed that Boeing was aware of potentially “catastrophic” concerns about the 737 Max’s safety before the first crash.

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0:26.0	From the New York Times, I'm Michael Barrow.
0:32.9	This is The Daily.
0:37.4	Today, in testimony before Congress, the chief executive of Boeing said, quote, if we knew
0:46.9	everything back then, that we know now, we would have made a different decision.
0:54.1	So what did Boeing executives know?
0:57.2	And when did they know it?
1:00.6	It's Thursday, October 31st.
1:09.5	So Natalie, for the past six months, we have been talking to you about what went wrong
1:13.8	with Boeing's 737 Max.
1:15.8	This jet that crashed twice, basically back to back over the past year.
1:21.3	And both times killed everybody on board.
1:24.7	Remind us what you have uncovered about those crashes up until now.
1:29.6	What went wrong?
1:30.8	So the first 737 Max crashes in October, it's not really clear what's going on.
1:35.9	It seems like it's a new automated system on the plane.
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