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Broken Dreams: The Boeing 787
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Broken Dreams: The Boeing 787

48 MIN · EN · STATUS: [ STREAMING ]
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Boeing's 787 Dreamliner is grounded worldwide for three months starting in January 2013, after lithium-ion battery fires force regulators to pull the plane from service, and Al Jazeera's Investigative Unit spends the film asking why. Reporter Will Jordan interviews current and former Boeing engineers, several of whom say they will not fly on the aircraft they helped build. Their accounts point to on-the-job drug use, quality control lapses, and rushed workmanship on the production line, alongside the deeper story of how the battery problems that triggered the grounding took hold in the first place. The unit lays out internal concerns raised before the fires and traces how warnings from the factory floor did or did not reach the people responsible for certifying the plane as safe. There is no reenactment here, just interviews and documents, and the film treats the 787 as a test case for what happens when a manufacturer's own workers do not trust its flagship product.