Why Boeing’s Top Airplanes Keep Failing

为什么波音顶级飞机不断失败

The Daily

2024-02-12

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When a piece of an Alaska Airlines flight blew out into the sky in January, concern and scrutiny focused once more on the plane’s manufacturer, Boeing. Sydney Ember, a business reporter for The Times, explains what has been learned about the incident and what the implications might be for Boeing. Guest: Sydney Ember, a business reporter for The New York Times.
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  • From the New York Times, I'm Sabrina Tavernisi, and this is the daily questions have swirled for weeks over what went wrong on an Alaska Airlines flight, where a piece of the plane blew out into the sky, terrifying passengers and renewing concerns about the plane's manufacturer, Boeing.

  • Last week in Washington, we started to get some answers.

  • Today, my colleague Sydney Ember explains.

  • It's Monday, February 12.

  • Sydney, welcome to the show.

  • Hi.

  • Hi.

  • So, Sydney, last month there was this terrifying incident on an Alaska Airlines flight.

  • A door fell off the plane while it was in midair.

  • And since then, there's been this kind of laundry list of unanswered questions about what went wrong and ultimately, you know, who was responsible for that.

  • And so last week, we started to get some of our first clear answers.

  • But let's start with the accident itself.

  • Walk us through what happened.

  • So Boeing has been under the microscope for about five years.