A new Netflix documentary, directed by Rory Kennedy, is a withering and forensic critique of the Boeing company and their complicit cover up of problems with their new Boeing 737 Max aircraft.
‘Downfall: The Case Against Boeing’ lacks drama or re-enactments of screaming passengers, but it catalogues a two decade-long decent from a company paranoid about safety to a company paranoid about its stock price.
That Boeing, a proud US aviation technology manufacturer
“The safety culture at Boeing fell apart. It was corrupted, from the top, down, from pressures from Wall Street, plain and simple.”
CHAIR OF THE COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION AND INFRASTRUCTURE – PETER A. DEFAZIO
Before the fatal crashes of two shiny new Boeing 737 Max jets, within 5 months in October 2018 and March 2019, almost no one outside the airline industry, even 737 pilots, had ever heard of MCAS, the…
