Boeing: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
LastWeekTonight2 HN recommenders · recommended in 2 months, 2024–2024
commentary · general · 2024–2024 on HN
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.
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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5 comments from Hacker News
There is a very nice episode of Last Week Tonight by John Oliver diving into it, accessible on YouTube[0]. [0]: ▶ this video
It’s aimed at entertainment but the latest Last Week Tonight covered this and is on YouTube. Hope this links works from my phone ▶ this video
Kayak let's you select: ▶ this 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.
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] - ▶ this video [video][32 mins][john oliver] [2] - link
> 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: ▶ this video