The photo is of the new Singapore Airlines Boeing 737-8. Except it's not really. It's a Boeing 737 MAX, the most controversial engineering makeover of the past 20 years. Singapore Airlines just don't want you to know that it's a 'MAX' with all the safety baggage that monicker now carries. A new book is out "Flying Blind — The 737 MAX Tragedy and the Fall of Boeing", published by Doubleday. It's a book you need to read if you fly on commercial planes. It's out on the book shelves at the same time Indonesian flying authorities lift a ban on the latest Boeing 737 model, more than 3 years after a Lion Air disaster that saw the loss of all 189 people on board, just off Jakarta. Investigative journalist Peter Robinson catalogues a litany of key failings that were eventually responsible for the deaths of 346 people and how the incidents eventually revealed, what Peter describes as, "the rotted culture of an iconic American company". His book lays out the argument that these 'incidents' were not 'accidents' and that the loss of lives of all 346 were totally avoidable. Take the story of Curtis Ewbank who would eventually be redeemed… Read full this story
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