March 12, 2019. The Ethiopian Airlines plane that crashed Sunday, killing 157, was the same model that crashed in October during a Lion Air flight in Indonesia. The two deadly accidents raised USA TODAY. 0:00. 0:50. Boeing's 737 Max, the jetliner grounded for 20 months after two international crashes that killed 346 passengers and crew, was cleared to fly again Wednesday by the Federal That led to the grounding of all 737 Max jets and put Boeing under intense pressure to explain problems associated with the flight control system, known as MCAS. The aircraft still has not resumed A Boeing 737 Max jet is set to land at Boeing Field following a test flight in Seattle. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, File) SEATTLE — As Boeing tries to emerge from the four-year shadow of two The Future of Aviation Safety. While it is reassuring the U.S. has finally taken action to ground the Boeing 737 MAX 8 and MAX 9, the sequence of events points to institutional issues in aviation And, as we all know only too well, sometimes it goes very, very wrong, as it did with the Boeing 737 MAX 8 and its Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System (MCAS) software in the Ethiopian Boeing’s decision to boost the strength of a flawed automated feature in its 737 Max, then remove information about it from flight manuals, raises broader concerns about company safety and Even before the 737 MAX took its first breath of fresh air when it was officially unveiled to the world on December 8, 2015, Boeing had already received 2856 total orders for the type. The MAX quickly became Boeing’s best-selling single-aisle aircraft. Two years later, on May 17, 2017, Boeing completed its first 737 MAX delivery to Malindo Air. The Spin There has been a great deal of back and forth over the reasons two Boeing 737 MAX airliners took the lives of 346 innocent souls. At the core of the problem is the classic duality of man vs. machine. Were the crashes the result of incompetent pilots and failure to follow procedures (The Man) or was … Continue reading The Human Factors Science Behind The 737MAX MCAS Problem and Why The FAA’s 4 December notice says Boeing requested “a partial exemption from [certain rules] as they relate to the engine nacelle inlet structure and engine anti-ice system” on 737 Max 7s rS26.