'The astoundingly well reported and beautifully told story of the downfall of what was once a
great American company. A must-read' Bethany McLean bestselling author of The Smartest Guys in
the Room 'Compelling and richly reported Flying Blind is about so much more than the sad
decline of Boeing and the tragic mistakes that led to the 737 Max disaster. It's also the
urgent story of how the almighty profit motive supplanted a culture of engineering excellence
in boardrooms across America' Brad Stone bestselling author of The Everything Store The
definitive exposé of how Boeing put profit before passengers leading to the devastating loss
of life in the 737 MAX crashes and the downfall of an American business giantIn examining the
history of the 737 Flying Blind explores how Boeing's new management degraded a
highly-regarded plane with cost-focused mandates and skimped on testing in the race to match a
competing plane from Airbus. How Boeing 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 and how ultimately these failures resulted in
the deaths of 346 Boeing passengers. 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 a cataclysm that cost lives. 'Vividly written and
meticulously researched Flying Blind is a story everyone - every consumer every citizen
every worker in every industry - needs to read' Diana B. Henriques New York Times bestselling
author of The Wizard of Lies: Bernie Madoff and the Death of Trust 'A gripping narrative and
required reading for anyone who wants to understand how one of America's mightiest corporations
veered so badly off course' Sheelah Kolhatkar New Yorker staff writer and bestselling author
of Black Edge
