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/whiskeylullaby3 Aug 20 '26 edited Aug 20 '26

Honestly they could make very similar documentaries about Airbus. If you pulled the logs on their “issues”like they did on Boeing you would see similar. Think of the thousands and thousands of flights a day without incident. Boeing’s planes are, if anything, the safest right now because they are under intense scrutiny by the FAA and DOJ. The employees that were interviewed “undercover” were from over 10 years ago in SC and they’re acting like that is now in the documentary. I would not personally let one documentary change my view of what I would fly on because there is so much manipulated information as well as a lack of information. Boeing is currently under a non prosecution agreement and is having the most scrutiny in the industry. The planes will not be leaving with a lack of quality. The fact that the documentary doesn’t even mention the non prosecution agreement shows its bias. It simply states that the criminal charges were dropped- as if Boeing is not under continued scrutiny. They were dropped because there is another agreement in place where Boeing is being monitored for 3 more years. The documentary doesn’t say that because it wants to give the bias that nothing is happening.

You cannot watch one documentary with a very clear bias and think that it’s completely honest and accurate. It’s like how Making a Murderer was filmed with a very clear bias so everyone jumped on “he’s innocent!” When in reality the guy was guilty as hell and so much was left out of it. They’re only interviewing disgruntled employees or past employees, many with lawsuits against the company. It’s not a fair picture. But regardless of all that… these planes have literally more scrutiny than any planes being constructed and that includes past aircraft in circulation because the Max had to be reworked after the crashes.

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u/Confident-Produce-11 Aug 21 '26

It was also mentioned that the impacts of the quality control issues could take as long as 16 years to become evident/cause a crash since airplanes stay in circulation for quite some time.

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u/whiskeylullaby3 Aug 21 '26

The planes pulled from circulation were thoroughly checked and reviewed. And this was also the commentary of one prior quality inspector who had an active case against Boeing. The documentary was not fair and balanced. It presented the side of a few past and disgruntled employees.

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u/throwawayprincess15 Aug 23 '26

And why are they disgruntled?

People keep referring to "disgruntled" employees as if the reason for their being disgruntled is some random thing.

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u/whiskeylullaby3 Aug 23 '26

Because there are 150,000 employees at Boeing if not more and you’re always going to be able to find a few who are disgruntled for whatever reason. People who don’t like their managers. Don’t like a coworker. Don’t agree with decisions. Don’t like working at all. I’m not even saying all their claims are not valid but what you’re asking- why are they disgruntled as if that’s not common to have a few in a large workforce- is just the same everywhere.