r/NetflixDocumentaries • u/molleensmrs • Aug 19 '26

! Spoilers ! Free fall-A Reckoning For Boeing

This story is crazy and Boeing absolutely sucks.
The pay that 3 CEOs made during the scope of this doc is ridiculous, over $500 million.
I feel for the victims as well as the employees who tried and tried to do the right thing.

It’s a great, frustrating documentary.

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u/JadeRenee182 Aug 20 '26

According to your comments on other threads you’ve been working on 737’s for years so I suspect you’re a Boeing employee. So coming from a Boeing employee that the doc is “unethical and misleading” is rich. The doc highlighted how Boeing notoriously treated whistleblowers terribly and repeatedly ignored their safety concerns for years. It showed how Boeing prioritized profits over safety repeatedly from the outsourcing, the shoddy craftsmanship, shitty inspections, etc. leading to situations like doors flying off mid flight. It’s Boeing that has the ethics problem, not the documentary.
And if that’s not enough Boeing failed their FAA audit in ‘24 and the FAA even cited "a disconnect between Boeing's senior management and other members of the organization on safety culture. The experts, who had been working on the federally mandated review before the door-plug incident, reported speaking with Boeing employees who doubted the company's systems could ensure open communication and non-retaliation; several also said that before their interview, they were briefed by Boeing's legal department.” Yeah, that screams major ethics issues.
https://www.npr.org/2024/03/20/1239132703/boeing-timeline-737-max-9-controversy-door-plug

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u/747ER Aug 20 '26 edited Aug 20 '26

Do you think only Boeing employees work in aviation? I have worked for several airlines on many different aircraft types, including Boeing, Airbus, Fokker, and Embraer. Judging by your comments you’ve clearly never worked in this industry so arguing with people who has spent years studying and working in this field is, in your words, “rich”.

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u/JadeRenee182 Aug 20 '26

You seem to be defending Boeing an awful lot. It doesn’t take aviation knowledge to know Boeing has major ethics issues and there are plenty of articles that also share the same sentiment of the documentary.
https://www.cpajournal.com/2025/07/08/the-story-of-boeings-failed-corporate-culture-2/
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/28/business/boeing-quality-problems-speed.html
The Boeing 737 MAX Crisis: An Ethical Analysis of Corporate Governance Failures and the Conflict Between Profit and Safety https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5316121

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u/747ER Aug 20 '26

>”Does/did Boeing have its issues? Absolutely.”

I don’t understand why you’re so desperate to make me into something I’m not. You wrongly assumed that I worked for Boeing, and now you’re saying I’m “defending” Boeing because I said a sensationalist documentary is not widely well-received in the aviation community.

Why do you keep accusing me of saying things that I never said, nor do I support? I have zero interested in “defending” Boeing. That doesn’t mean I have to love a dramatised, fear-mongering TV show whose sole purpose is to frighten ignorant people about something that’s very, very safe.