Flying Blind: The 737 MAX Tragedy and the Fall of Boeing

by Peter Robison

Then Claybrook brought the focus back to Boeing. Nader had called on the day of the crash to tell her Samya was dead. Claybrook remembered that her broker had invested $35,000 in Boeing stock for her retirement account three years previously. When she hung up, she called the broker to ask what the stock was now worth; it had appreciated by $100,000. “It just shows,” Claybrook told the crowd, “that this company was not putting money into the airplane and into flying, it was putting the money into profit—of course, from which the members of that executive board and others profited as well.” She said she could no longer see it as anything but “blood money.” Claybrook sold the stock and donated the proceeds, in Samya’s name, to the Nader museum.