Boeing Can't Build Planes Anymore

A door blew off a Boeing jet at sixteen thousand feet over Portland, and investigators found four bolts that were never installed in the first place. This video traces how Boeing got there: the 1997 McDonnell Douglas merger that put Harry Stonecipher's finance-first culture in charge, the 2001 move of headquarters to Chicago away from the factory floor, more than forty billion dollars spent on stock buybacks while the 737 MAX was rushed into production, and the MCAS software built to patch an airframe problem instead of redesigning it. It follows chief technical pilot Mark Forkner's internal messages, the Lion Air and Ethiopian Airlines crashes that killed 346 people, Dennis Muilenburg's congressional testimony and firing, the Justice Department's criminal settlement, whistleblower John Barnett's death during deposition testimony, the stranded Starliner astronauts, the 2024 machinists' strike, and Boeing's decision to buy back Spirit AeroSystems. The question running through all of it: how does a company that once defined an entire industry end up unable to build its own airplane safely, and who, at every step, chose profit over the plane. CHAPTERS 0:00 Intro 1:39 Queen of the Skies 3:05 The Reverse Takeover 5:47 A Software Fix 8:20 Lied to the Regulators 9:42 Three Hundred Forty-Six 13:38 Found Dead Mid-Testimony 16:01 The Bill SOURCES Associated Press — Boeing's cumulative losses since 2019 top $35 billion (2024) U.S. Department of Justice — Boeing criminal fraud settlement, $2.5 billion (January 2021) — https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/boeing... National Transportation Safety Board — Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 investigation (2024) — https://www.ntsb.gov International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, District 751 — Boeing strike contract ratification (November 2024) Which decision do you think did the most damage: the McDonnell Douglas merger, the move to Chicago, or hiding MCAS from pilots? Subscribe for the next collapse:    / @deadbrandswalkingtv   All footage, photos and documents in the video are real. The thumbnail is an illustration. #Boeing #CorporateDecline #BusinessDocumentary