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Bezig met laden... Flying Blind: The 737 MAX Tragedy and the Fall of Boeing (editie 2022)door Peter Robison (Auteur)
Informatie over het werkFlying Blind: The 737 MAX Tragedy and the Fall of Boeing door Peter Robison
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 Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek.   ) rivkat | Sep 1, 2023 |   ) lavellemt | Apr 11, 2023 |  ) rabbitprincess | Jun 29, 2022 |  ) lemontwist | May 25, 2022 | The second crash, of an Ethiopian Airlines flight, drew more scrutiny around the world, as it carried passengers from a multiple countries, including a number of Americans. This is the crash that resulted in the grounding of the 737 MAX fleet, eventually worldwide, though the U.S. was slow to follow the lead of other countries. Robison, an investigative journalist for Bloomberg, authors a compelling account of changes in the corporate culture of Boeing -- from a culture of engineering excellence to a culture much too focused on the bottom line and making shareholders happy. The resulting damage to internal communication and other processes, and compromises made to keep to ambitious budgets and schedules, was compounded by regulatory changes that more or less put Boeing in charge of regulating itself. (What can you say when the FAA, the supposed regulatory agency, refers to the plane manufacturers as their "customers." During development of the MAX, FAA workers actually were rewarded for helping to keep the manufacturer on schedule!) The book contains almost 40 pages of endnotes, a bibliography, and an index. I'd say this was a great start to my reading year! ( )1  tymfos | Jan 26, 2022 |
Robison, an investigative reporter for Bloomberg, argues that the story of the 737 Max presents us with a parable of what happens when a great American corporation chooses financial rewards over quality. “How did a company that prided itself on its engineering prowess, that had perfectionism in its DNA, go so wildly off course?” he asks. For the answer, he takes us back to the origins of Boeing, to the early days of the 737 and to a flawed series of decisions, some going back decades, that sealed the fate of hundreds of innocent passengers.... A succession of new executives who had been schooled at the knee of Jack Welch at General Electric took charge. None were engineers. But all were focused on reducing costs, circumventing workers’ unions and reaping the rewards that came with boosting revenue. A case in point: The year of the Lion Air crash, Dennis Muilenburg, Boeing’s chief executive and chairman, took home $31 million in pay and performance bonuses.... The regulators, Robison writes, “had become a rubber stamp.” ....With lawsuits and order cancellations, the cost of transforming the stodgy 737 into the Max will, in the end, prove far more expensive to Boeing than what it would have cost to design a new and better aircraft from scratch. And this calculation doesn’t even include the incalculable damage to the company’s reputation. Sometimes, lest we forget, the harder path will prove to be the smarter path. In October, a federal grand jury indicted a former Boeing test pilot named Mark Forkner, accusing him of deceiving the Federal Aviation Administration and scheming to defraud airlines during the development of the 737 Max.... It might be tempting to view the indictment as a sort of resolution to the 737 Max ordeal. Identifying a chief villain has a way of simplifying complex narratives.... [but] ultimate blame for the crashes lies with the highly paid executives who waged a decades-long campaign to transform Boeing from a company “once ruled by engineers who thumbed their noses at Wall Street” into “one of the most shareholder-friendly creatures of the market,” a company that “celebrated managers for cost cutting, co-opted regulators with heaps of money and pressured suppliers with Walmart-style tactics.” ...Even with hundreds of families in pain, Boeing’s reputation tarnished and the F.A.A.’s credibility in tatters, “the managers,” Robison writes, “men who heaped on the pressure, reaped the rewards and then disappeared when the whole deadly blunder was exposed — never paid any price.” For decades, Boeing was known as an engineering firm devoted to quality and safety. Then two 737 MAX crashes—Lion Air in Indonesia in 2018 followed by Ethiopian Airlines in 2019—laid bare the dramatic change in Boeing and the human costs of shareholder primacy.... As leadership focused on increasing share price, more and more potential problems were ignored in favor of cost savings. Robison meticulously captures the decisions leading to the 737 MAX’s release, including the lack of FAA oversight, that could have prevented the software overrides that caused the crashes in Indonesia and Ethiopia.... A remarkable look at corporate culture’s impact on consumer safety, Flying Blind is a captivating and unsettling portrait of Boeing and American business. There’s built-in conflict in a culture of builders committed to safety as against a culture of bean counters committed to shaving every conceivable cost and getting rid of anyone who questions them. So it was with the Boeing 737 MAX, a passenger plane built on the framework of the lithe 737. The newly released aircraft immediately caused the deaths of 346 people, and the investigation of the two crashes involved revealed both that “software had overridden humans” and that the Federal Aviation Administration had essentially turned over its watchdog functions to Boeing itself.... A damning, highly readable account of a once-great company brought to its knees by bad leadership. PrijzenOnderscheidingenErelijsten
"A fast-paced look at the corporate dysfunction--the ruthless cost-cutting, toxic workplaces, and cutthroat management--that contributed to one of the worst tragedies in modern aviation Boeing is a century-old titan of American industry. The largest exporter in the US, it played a central role in the early days of commercial flight, World War II bombing missions, and moon landings. It remains a linchpin in the awesome routine of air travel today. But the two crashes of its 737 MAX 8, in 2018 and 2019, exposed a shocking pattern of malfeasance, leading to the biggest crisis in the company's history. How did things go so horribly wrong at Boeing? Flying Blind is the definitive exposé of a corporate scandal that has transfixed the world. It reveals how a broken corporate culture paved the way for disaster, losses that were altogether avoidable. Drawing from aviation insiders, as well as exclusive interviews with senior Boeing staff, past and present, it shows how in its race to beat Airbus, Boeing skimped on testing, outsourced critical software to unreliable third-parties, and convinced regulators to put planes into service without properly equipping pilots to fly them. In the chill that it cast over its workplace, it offers a parable for a corporate America that puts the interests of shareholders over customers, employees, and communities. This is a searing account of how a once-iconic company fell prey to a win-at-all-costs mentality, destabilizing an industry and needlessly sacrificing 350 lives"-- Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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