In less than six months, two Boeing (BA) 737 “MAX 8” single-aisle transport aircraft have crashed to earth, leaving no survivors.
In October 2018, Lion Air Flight 610 went down in the Java Sea, claiming the lives of all 189 passengers and crew. Five months later, Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 took off from Addis Ababa Bole International Airport in Ethiopia, carrying 157 passengers. Six minutes later, it had crashed — again, with no survivors.
Blame for both disasters currently centers on Boeing’s Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System, or MCAS, flight control system for the 737 MAX — a system that was assessed as safe by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) when Boeing was getting the 737 MAX certified to fly. But as reported this week by The Seattle Times (ST), there appear to have been “several crucial flaws” in the System Safety Analysis (SSA) review that Boeing conducted on MCAS at the FAA’s behest.
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