For decades, the giant American aircraft manufacturer, Boeing, gained great confidence from airlines and travelers from around the world, making it the first in its field, and its success continued for years until two accidents occurred within a few months, which led to accusations of some of its officials.

In its new investigative documentary, "Downfall: The Case Against Boeing," Netflix reveals the real reasons why two Boeing 737 Max planes fell in two consecutive crashes more than a year ago. 3 years, tragically and shockingly wasting the lives of hundreds of people that shook the world.

The documentary sheds light on what the families of the victims went through, and the investigations with “Boeing” managers, and how the company deliberately concealed dangerous information from airlines, pilots and government agencies, in order to save costs, achieve more sales, and earn more money.

They fell from the sky!

Journalist Andy Pastor, who works for the Wall Street Journal and has specialized in writing articles on aviation for more than 20 years, says that at the beginning of 2018, the world witnessed the safest era of commercial aviation in the history of aviation. Any passenger plane crash occurred anywhere in the world in the preceding year, until two planes fell "from the sky!".

The wife of the pilot of the Indonesian airline, Lion Air, recounts how her husband died in the first accident that occurred on October 29, 2018, after the plane he was flying crashed in the Java Sea, minutes after taking off from the capital, Jakarta. The plane crashed, leaving behind 189 casualties.

The company tried to blame the crew, and did not admit that there was a malfunction in its plane, but during the investigations to find out the real cause, the other accident occurred on March 10, 2019, 19 weeks after the first accident, when the Ethiopian Airlines flight met a similar fate to the Indonesian plane, in a way Similar, the accident claimed the lives of 157 people.

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It was no longer a mere accident. When two accidents occurred minutes after takeoff within a few months, without any weather factors helping to bring down the planes, Boeing could no longer evade and blame the pilot, his education and his competence.

With families' attempts to find out the cause of the death of their loved ones, intensive investigations begin, summoning the company's managers and interrogating them, and the investigation committee demands the disclosure of the documents necessary to find out who is responsible for this tragedy.

Money takes precedence over safety

Here, the documentary goes back, and delves into the history of the company, and how it transformed from a pioneering company that earned the trust of the public and made safety a top priority, to a money-making company, gradually compromising its quality and standards, and reducing the number of quality officials to only one employee for the entire building per shift. , while in the past there were 15 employees.

During the search behind the two accidents, many disturbing discoveries emerged about some Boeing officials. During the struggle with competitors and attempts to achieve the largest sales, the company decided to develop its already existing “Boeing 737” aircraft, and the company presented to the world its new developed aircraft called “Boeing Max 737”.

But it deliberately concealed a fatal flaw in it, and hid its truth from airlines and pilots, and even from the US Federal Aviation Administration, according to investigations.

And all this in order to save time and costs.

DOWNFALL: THE CASE AGAINST BOEING

This documentary investigates the two Boeing 737 MAX crashes that killed 346 people, exploring the root causes and the human cost.

A chilling portrait of a crumbling corporate culture and the cover-up that followed.

From director Rory Kennedy.

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After the Boeing 737 Max achieved the highest sales in the company's history, two horrific accidents occurred and hundreds were killed, which could have been avoided if the company had spent more money training pilots to use its new plane, and more time to solve its fatal technical flaws.

Do not feel remorse

While plane crashes caused the 737 Max to be grounded for a few months, in 2021 the FAA gave the green light for planes to fly again.

As Boeing sought to file a criminal charge against itself, that it deceived the Federal Aviation Administration, the company agreed to a $2.5 billion settlement more than a year ago, but its attitude toward the victims has not changed, and according to the daughter of one of the victims, Boeing did not communicate with the victims directly. “It shows that they have no regrets or any sense of responsibility,” she said.

"I really wanted to find out what happened, who was responsible, and make a movie where we can learn some lessons from that, to ensure that this tragic incident doesn't happen again," director Rory Kennedy, an Emmy Award winner and an Oscar nominee, said in an interview with Deadline. other".

This is what Kennedy tried to present in the documentary, by presenting interviews with pilots, families of the victims, journalists, investigators, former Boeing engineers, aviation experts, quality officials, officials from the Federal Aviation Administration, and members of the US Congress, weaving the facts, emotions and narrative of the historical context in Extreme clarity, in the style of thrillers.