When one (airplane) door opens ...

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🗓️ 8 February 2024

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Missing bolts, door panels flying off in midair — and that’s not even on the planes that crashed. The Washington Post’s Ian Duncan and the Wall Street Journal’s Andrew Tangel explain why Boeing is a problem the FAA still hasn’t fixed. This episode was produced by Victoria Chamberlin and Avishay Artsy, edited by Amina Al-Sadi, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by David Herman, and hosted by Noel King. Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained Support Today, Explained by making a financial contribution to Vox! bit.ly/givepodcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	It's all fun in games until somebody gets hurt goes the old saying and so when the door
0:04.9	panel flew off of Boeing 737 Max9 mid-flight last month. I'm excited to announce
0:10.9	that we found the door plug. Thank you Bob. Bob contacted us and
0:17.6	miraculously no one died or was seriously injured even the National
0:21.7	Transportation Safety Board had a little fun.
0:24.8	So thank you very much Bob.
0:27.2	Bless you.
0:28.2	And then this week the head of the FAA told a congressional hearing investigating that
0:32.4	incident the following.
0:33.7	The current system is not working because it's not delivering safe aircraft.
0:36.9	And it was a bit of a record scratch moment because Boeing is not just
0:45.0	just doing aircraft? And if you hadn't been paying much attention to Boeing,
0:44.7	perhaps you were only now realizing its problems are Legion,
0:47.8	they're not just door-related, and maybe you're wondering,
0:50.9	what is being done about this? So were we. Answers for you ahead
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