Will I love Flying Blind?

Flying Blind is a fascinating yet uncomfortable look at the two Boeing 737 MAX crashes that occurred in 2018 and 2019 and their aftermath. Robison tells a compelling and accessible tale of the corporate culture, design mistakes and shortcuts, and the regulatory failures that led to the deaths of almost 350 people.

Boeing used to be a paragon of how engineering-driven companies could deliver amazing products and amazing profits. This book chronicles how that changed, and how Boeing lost its guiding principles. It shows how prioritizing the stock price over the business or the people who flew in its planes led to decisions that literally killed hundreds of people. Engineering concerns were regularly set aside for schedule or cost reasons. Most of us don’t work on products whose failures cause hundreds of deaths, but there’s an important lesson about being proud of the work you do and the products you deliver,… show more.