Netflix's Downfall: The Case Against Boeing is a damning account of the tragedies caused by Boeing's malfeasance and greed

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The documentary directed by Rory Kennedy "goes deeper to contextualize Boeing’s culpability within larger trends of American corporate governance, succinctly laying out how the lure of Wall Street led what was once an almighty symbol of American aviation to self-sabotage," says Isaac Feldberg. "We now know that both 737 crashes were caused by the flawed design of an anti-stall system known as MCAS (Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System), which misfired after receiving data from a faulty sensor, forcing the plane’s nose down repeatedly even as pilots fought desperately to bring it back up. Their efforts were doomed to fail. Boeing had placed pilots in the impossible position of having 10 seconds to override a system they hadn’t known existed and weren’t told was aboard, let alone taught to operate." ALSO: Director Rory Kennedy says the biggest challenge was gaining the trust of the victims' family members their negative experiences with the press.