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The Boeing 737 MAX scandal, explained
Brut America
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2/17/2022
It was Boeing's best-selling plane … Until it found itself at the center of a coverup that cost hundreds of lives.
This is the Boeing 737 Max scandal explained.
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We have breaking news from Indonesia. A Lion Air Boeing 737,
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Max 8, carrying 189 people, crashed into the sea this morning.
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The first crash should not have happened. The second crash is inexcusable.
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When you think about airlines who have a profit margin of sometimes only three or four percent,
00:46
this has the potential to really transform their business.
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This is an airplane that will continue to have a competitive advantage
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to not only our competition today, but competition in the future.
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The race to build the new planes and compete with Europe's Airbus
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pushed the production schedule into overdrive. Instead of 47 planes a month, 52 were being built.
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As the pilots of the 737 Max were scrambling to keep control of the plane,
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they desperately began sourcing a handbook, struggling to understand why the jet was
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lurching downwards. Indonesian investigators found the black boxes. It records a very
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comprehensive tally of what happened on the airplane. Something was putting repeated
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nose-down pressure on the airplane.
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The reporting showed Boeing knew that it was risky, but their response was to blame the pilots.
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So
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stunning announcement from the FAA. New evidence begins to show a connection between
03:05
Sunday's airplane crash in Ethiopia and the Lion Air crash five months earlier.
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Data from the Ethiopian plane is similar, up and down, then up again over a very volatile two
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minutes. American Airlines pilots asking months ago to Boeing officials, why didn't they know
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about this new flight control system? The crew performed all the procedures
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repeatedly provided by the manufacturer, but was not able to control the aircraft.
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We're going to be issuing an emergency order of prohibition to ground all flights of the 737
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Max 8 and the 737 Max 9. Safety is at the core of who we are at Boeing. Thank you. Most important
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to the relatives who have lost loved ones, if you could please stand so we could thank you.
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Sammy experienced six minutes of roller coaster terror, so did the others on the plane. The plane
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plowed into an Ethiopian farm field. In the over 1,600 page original flight manual of Boeing 737
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Max, the aircraft's new MCAS computer system was mentioned only once. Once. Senator, if I could
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try to respond to your question. First of all, the premise that we would lie or conceal is just
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not consistent with our values. With new flight control software and updated pilot procedures,
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the 737 Max has been cleared to take off. Nobody deserves to go through this kind of grief and this
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sorrow and pain when it could be prevented. And we want the Max 8 to be safe before it is returned
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to the public again. If they meet the terms of the agreement over the next three years,
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the charge for conspiracy to defraud the FAA, that will be dropped. It was a sweetheart deal.
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It wasn't justice. And by giving this immunity, basically the decision makers have not been held
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to account.
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