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Boeing: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

Boeing: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

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2 HN recommenders · discussed 2024–2024
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About this video

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.

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From the Hacker News discussion

stevenwoo · 2024-03 · rec

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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cube2222 · 2024-08 · rec

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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Bender · 2024-03 · reference

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] - [VIDEO] [video][32 mins][john oliver] [2] - [LINK]

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gigel82 · 2024-03 · reference

> 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: [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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