Boeing: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
Why Hacker News recommends it
HN recommends it as an entertaining and thorough overview of Boeing's decline whenever the company's safety problems are in the news.
What it is
John Oliver's Last Week Tonight segment on Boeing, tracing how it went from a quality engineering company to one tied to crashes and 'quality escapes'. It covers the 737 MAX failures and employee concerns about safety.
Recommended by 2 HN commenters across 2 different months, 2024 to 2024.
What Hacker News said
Recommends stevenwoo · 2024-03 · on “U.S. is said to open criminal inquiry into Boeing”
It’s aimed at entertainment but the latest Last Week Tonight covered this and is on YouTube. Hope this links works from my phone [this video]
Recommends cube2222 · 2024-08 · on “NASA announces Boeing Starliner crew will return on SpaceX Crew-9”
There is a very nice episode of Last Week Tonight by John Oliver diving into it, accessible on YouTube[0]. [0]: [this video]
Cites Bender · 2024-03 · on “Boeing whistleblower found dead in US”
I hope the company had no involvement in this. It would be bit futile given such a large audience has seen their employees state they won't fly in the aircraft they build. [1] 3,716,935 views 4 days ago and Blancolirio's assorted incident reports [2] [1] - [this video] [video][32 mins][john oliver] [2] - [LINK]
Cites gigel82 · 2024-03 · on “U.S. sues Apple, accusing it of maintaining an iPhone monopoly”
> Apple should be another Boeing, a company that exists to embody its regulation That is pretty funny because you're right, Apple is becoming another Boeing - a profit-above-all-else corporate asshole and just like Boeing what we need is a hell of a lot more regulation, not less: [this video]
Cites belter · 2024-04 · on “Another Boeing whistleblower says he faced retaliation for reporting 'shortcuts'”
Kayak let's you select: [this video] Also historical flight data like on [LINK] Will let you go back hundreds of flights, and find the airplane the airline uses most of the time, for that flight.