Where Boeing Went Wrong: Bloomberg Businessweek

Hi, it’s Peter. Boeing is an iconic American company famed for meticulous engineering. But the century-old plane maker went wildly off course in 2018 and 2019, when two of its 737 Max jets crashed, killing 346 people. The company remains in the news for all the wrong reasons: a misfiring space capsule, manufacturing defects that have parked 787 Dreamliners, even the recent discovery of discarded tequila bottles in the belly of an Air Force One jumbo jet under construction. What went wrong?

As I learned researching my book, Flying Blind, a history of Boeing and the Max saga that comes out Tuesday, ...