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Texas Judge Rejects Boeing Plea Deal Over 737 MAX Crashes
On Thursday, a US judge rejected Boeing’s guilty plea to fraud concerning the two fatal crashes caused by the MCAS system in the then-brand-new Boeing 737 MAX aircraft. The deal was rejected ...
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A damning new report into the Boeing 737 Max slammed the FAA's 'inadequate awareness' of the system blamed for 2 deadly crashes
"The JATR team found that the MCAS was not evaluated as a complete ... five months after a Lion Air 737 Max crashed in Indonesia, killing 189 people on board. Major US airlines — including ...
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Boeing will pay US$ 2,5bn to resolve investigation related to the 737 MAX crashes
Boeing admitted in court documents that two of its 737 MAX flight technical pilots deceived the FAA about a safety system called MCAS, which was tied to both fatal crashes. Boeing Chief Executive ...
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Boeing's CEO and other executives are out after a string of crises. Here's a roundup of recent issues.
Boeing's CEO and several key executives are out after a terrifying fuselage blowout on a Boeing 737 Max 9 plane in January ... Boeing had not revealed the MCAS's existence to operators or pilots.
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“Clear similarities” between Boeing 737 crashes in Indonesia and Ethiopia
The disaster caused worldwide grounding of the Boeing 737MAX 8 after regulators noticed similarities with the crash of an Indonesian ... aircraft as the automated MCAS system repeatedly pushed ...
Business Insider India5y
This timeline shows exactly what happened on board the Lion Air Boeing 737 Max that crashed in less than 13 minutes, killing 189 people
It was the first of two fatal crashes for Boeing's 737 Max. A second crashed over Ethiopia ... as automatic anti-stall software, known as MCAS, overrode their instructions and pushed the nose ...
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Boeing to plead guilty to fraud in US probe of fatal 737 Max crashes
Plea deal relates to two 737 Max crashes in Indonesia and Ethiopia in ... The Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System (MCAS) is a software feature designed to automatically push the ...
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Boeing's Own Engineers May Have Been Unaware of 737 Max Problems
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Boeing accepts a plea deal to avoid a criminal trial over 737 Max crashes, Justice Department says
Again. Boeing will plead guilty to a criminal fraud charge stemming from two crashes of 737 Max jetliners that killed 346 people, the Justice Department said late Sunday, after the government ...
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Four questions for Boeing’s CEO | Editorial
MCAS is intended as a safety measure to compensate for the airplane’s larger engines, which could affect the 737 Max’s aerodynamics. In the Lion Air crash, sensors possibly misread the plane ...
Business Insider India5y
The full Lion Air crash report hammers Boeing for design flaws that brought down a 737 Max and killed 189 people
The final report by investigators of the Lion Air Boeing 737 Max plane that crashed and killed 189 people in October 2018 said that Boeing's design of the plane contributed to the crash, alongside ...