No One Knows How Dangerous Boeing’s 737 Max Actually Is
A faulty automated system leaves lingering questions
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7 min readApr 5, 2019
After a Lion Air 737 Max crashed in Indonesia last October, killing all 189 people aboard, Boeing anticipated that the plane’s flaw would be relatively straightforward to fix. A faulty sensor had caused an automated system to kick in and push the plane’s nose down; the startled…
