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Boeing: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
John Oliver's Last Week Tonight segment on Boeing, tracing how it went from a quality engineering company to one tied to crashes and 'quality escapes'. It covers the 737 MAX failures and employee concerns about safety.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN recommends it as an entertaining and thorough overview of Boeing's decline whenever the company's safety problems are in the news.
This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.
Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- LastWeekTonight
- Topic
- boeing safety failures
- Format
- commentary
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 5
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2024–2024
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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It’s aimed at entertainment but the latest Last Week Tonight covered this and is on YouTube. Hope this links works from my phone [VIDEO]
stevenwoo on Hacker News · 2024-03
In U.S. is said to open criminal inquiry into BoeingThere is a very nice episode of Last Week Tonight by John Oliver diving into it, accessible on YouTube[0]. [0]: [VIDEO]
cube2222 on Hacker News · 2024-08
In NASA announces Boeing Starliner crew will return on SpaceX Crew-9
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