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Boeing: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

LastWeekTonight · 12.3M views · 2024-03-07 · 32:36

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Overview

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.

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HN recommends it as an entertaining and thorough overview of Boeing's decline whenever the company's safety problems are in the news.

Recommended by 2 HN people across 2 months · HN mentions 2024–2024

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cube2222 · 2024-08 · Recommendation

There is a very nice episode of Last Week Tonight by John Oliver diving into it, accessible on YouTube[0]. [0]: [VIDEO]

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stevenwoo · 2024-03 · Recommendation

It’s aimed at entertainment but the latest Last Week Tonight covered this and is on YouTube. Hope this links works from my phone [VIDEO]

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belter · 2024-04 · Reference

Kayak let's you select: [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.

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