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Jan 2024
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What Next TBD: Boeing’s Max Mess

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Shortly after take off from Portland, OR, the plug exit on a Boeing 737 Max 9 jet blew out – causing an uncontrolled decompression of the plane. Now, accident investigators are hard at work, trying to determine what happened in what's the latest catastrophe for the respected commercial airplane provider.


Guest: Jon Ostrower, Editor-in-chief of The Air Current


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