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Join Wundry Plus in the Wundery app or on Apple Podcasts. Wonder. It's April 29th, 2019 in Chicago, Illinois.

An aerospace reporter is sitting in the back of an Uber, gazing out the window as they approach the Field Museum of Natural

History. Up ahead he can see a small group of protesters standing outside the museum's

entrance. Some of them are holding signs that say things like Boeing's arrogance kills.

Others hold poster-sized photos of their loved ones, people the reporter recognizes

as victims of the most recent Boeing 737 Max-8 crash.

The reporter has been covering commercial air travel for years, and he's been closely

following the situation to Boeing since the first Max-8 crashed six months ago. Right from the start he

had questions about how a brand new plane could simply fall out of the sky and

since a second Max 8 crashed just last, those questions have only grown more urgent.

But so far, Boeing has not been forthcoming with any answers.

The company admits that they installed a new software component called

M-KAS on the planes without telling pilots. They also admit that in both

crashes that system malfunction, but the company insists that they followed all proper safety protocols

when installing MCAS and that pilot error was what led to the accidents.

The reporter thinks there's more to the story though and that's why he's here.

Boeing has rented out the museum for its annual shareholders meeting and in a few minutes the company

CEO Dennis Mullenberg is scheduled to hold his first press conference since the two crashes.

So when the reporter's Uber pulls up to the curb outside the museum, he heads straight for the entrance.

Inside he identifies himself to security.

They search his bag and make him walk through an x-ray machine

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