Every so often, a documentary comes along that’s also a horror film. Director Rory Kennedy’s Downfall: The Case Against Boeing is one example.
The new film is a harrowing look at the lead-up to and aftermath of two crashes that left 346 people dead. In the crashes, Lion Air Flight 610 on October 29, 2018 and Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 on March 10, 2019, answers as to what happened were initially in short supply as Boeing tried to blame the pilots.
Eventually, at the urging of journalists and the victims’ families, the truth came out: the planes had faulty flight systems. What followed was a historic
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