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Boeing CEO apologises to families of fatal 737 MAX crashes at US Senate hearing

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Boeing's CEO David Calhoun has testified at a US Senate subcommittee investigating the planemaker's "broken safety culture". Relatives of some of the 346 victims of two fatal crashes involving the Boeing 737 MAX also attended the hearing and heard the CEO directly apologise to them, while the panel grilled him about his plans to fix Boeing's manufacturing problems. FRANCE 24's Yuka Royer speaks to aviation and tourism expert Anita Mendiratta about the importance of whistleblowers.

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