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

by Peter Robison

Marie Douglas, an analyst from Lazard Asset Management, that the strike had been emotional. He said the feelings were far different from anything he’d ever experienced at Boeing, which now seemed ruled by anger, fear, and pride. “Really? That’s my experience every day on Wall Street,” replied Douglas, then twenty-eight. Blond, six foot three, and a countess from Sweden, Douglas would go on to marry George David, the CEO of United Technologies, another of the aerospace companies she covered. (Their divorce at the height of the Great Recession in 2009 became a tabloid sensation when, though the couple were childless, she asked for $53,000 in maintenance—per week. That included $4,500 a week for clothing, $1,570 a week for horse care, and $600 a week for flowers.)