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B-737 MAX aircraft: FAA would have evaluated the grounding already last year?

There were many doubts about the absence of a warning signal of a malfunction in the MCAS

After the incident of Lion Air's Boeing B-737 MAX 8 aircraft some FAA (Federal Aviation Administration) inspectors would have evaluated the hypothesis of grounding the entire fleet of aircraft, especially since preliminary investigations showed that there was no warning sign for pilots in case of malfunction of the automatic anti-stall system (MCAS). Improvement that was made by Boeing only after another...

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AccidentsB-737 MAX aircraft: Boeing did not listen to suggestions from pilots on the MCAS

Ethiopia tragedy avoided if it did, the American Airlines union said it

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For the first time since the two incidents at the B-737 MAX, of Lion Air and Ethiopian Airlines, today the Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg will come to face with the shareholders of the US aerospace company,... more

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