Flying Blind
‘Written in crisp, controlled anger. It is an indictment…of politicians believing business knew best, of regulators bending to their will, and of shareholder returns elevated above any consideration for the rest of society.’
Financial Times
An Entertainment Weekly Pick of the Month's Best Books
A Wall Street Journal Best Book of the Year
A Newsweek Best Book of 2021
An NPR Best Book of the Year
A Wall Street Journal bestseller
A New York Post Pick of 2021's Best Books
A New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice of the Week
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Boeing's story is the corporate scandal that's transfixed the world like none since the bankruptcy of Enron and the BP oil spill.
In examining the history of the 737, a highly-regarded plane that Boeing's new management degraded with cost-focused mandates, Flying Blind explores how Boeing skimped on testing in the race to match a competing plane from Airbus, outsourced software work to poorly paid graduates in India and convinced the US Federal Aviation Authority to put the MAX into service without requiring pilots to undergo simulator training.
Dramatically framed around the 737 MAX crashes, Flying Blind is the definitive exposé that for the first time tells the larger, decades-long story of how a corrupt corporate culture paved the way for the cataclysm.
© Peter Robison 2021 (P) Penguin Audio 2021
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