The series of events, as tey laid out at the beginning is very odd. The first country to ground all seven 37 max flihts are the chinese. I the chinese have been engaged in a large scale amount of industrial espionage for decades. They've been trying to get their claws in bowing for a long time. This is a completely unfair fight and to allow it to compete domestically is just sort of clownish. So they do finger that that arbus having this planea series of planes, gaa 300, i believe, is the direct competitor,. yes.
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In 2019, Airbus surpassed for the first time Boeing as the largest aerospace company in the world, as two crashes of Boeing’s 737-Max airplane forced a grounding of the fleet and a halt in sales, eventually costing it $20 billion in associated fines and delays. While Boeing maintains a relatively strong overall safety record as measured by crashes per million departures, the production problems with the 787 Dreamliner in the mid 2010s and the recent 737 debacle has cast some doubt as to the management and engineering practices at the century-old American icon of industry. Tonight we delve into the roots of what made the company as successful as it was, as well as some of the key events that arguably led to its current troubles that date back well into the 1990s and beyond.
