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‘A startling investigation of the corporate blunders behind the tragedies that claimed the lives of 346 passengers.’ – The Times
‘A compelling, deeply reported account written in crisp, controlled anger…an indictment not just of on of America’s most celebrated companies, but of an entire era.’ – Financial Times
‘An authoritative, gripping and finely detailed narrative that charts the decline of one of the great American companies.’ – New York Times Book Review
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Discover the corporate scandal that transfixed the world, cost hundreds of innocent lives, and almost destroyed a global institution.
Boeing is a century-old titan of industry, having played a role in the early days of commercial flight, Second World War bombing missions and even moon landings. Yet in 2018 and 2019, two crashes of the Boeing 737 MAX 8 killed 346 people. The crashes exposed a shocking pattern of malfeasance, leading to the biggest crisis in the company’s history – and one of the costliest corporate scandals ever. How did things go so horribly wrong?
Flying Blind is the definitive account of the disasters that shocked the world; a chilling, behind-the-scenes look at the corporate dysfunction which contributed to one of the worst tragedies in modern aviation. It’s an exposé of a reckless culture where – in a race to beat the competition and reward top executives – Boeing skimped on testing, pressured employees to meet unrealistic deadlines and ultimately convinced regulators to put planes into the air without properly equipping them or their pilots for flight.
From award-winning Bloomberg investigative journalist Peter Robison, this is the story of a business gone wildly off course. At once endlessly fascinating and deeply disturbing, it shows how the iconic company fell prey to a win-at-all-costs mentality, threatening an industry and sacrificing countless lives.
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‘An urgent, compelling and richly reported story of how the almighty profit motive supplanted a culture of engineering excellence, and the avoidable calamity that has impacted all of us as a result.’ – Brad Stone, author of Amazon Unbound and The Everything Store
‘A story everyone – every consumer, every citizen, every worker in every industry – needs to read.‘ – Diana B. Henriques, NYT bestselling author of The Death of Trust and The Wizard of Lies: Bernie Madoff
‘The astoundingly well reported and beautifully told story of the downfall of what was once a great American company. A must-read.’ – Bethany McClean, author of All The Devils Are Here and The Smartest Guys In The Room
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Boeing’s story is the corporate scandal that’s transfixed the world like none since the bankruptcy of Enron and the BP oil spill. In examining the history of the 737, a highly-regarded plane that Boeing’s new management degraded with cost-focused mandates, ‘Flying Blind’ explores how Boeing skimped on testing in the race to match a competing plane from Airbus, outsourced software work to poorly paid graduates in India and convinced the US Federal Aviation Authority to put the MAX into service without requiring pilots to undergo simulator training. Dramatically framed around the 737 MAX crashes, ‘Flying Blind’ is the definitive exposé that for the first time tells the larger, decades-long story of how a corrupt corporate culture paved the way for the cataclysm.
Weight | 0.555 kg |
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Dimensions | 24 × 16.2 × 3.2 cm |
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Cover | Hardback |
Pages | 320 |
Language | English |
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Dewey | 338.7629130973 (edition:23) |
Readership | College – higher education / Code: F |
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