THE BOEING 737 MAX CRISIS
Episode 221 | Historical Events
In this History episode we focus on the Boeing 737 MAX crisis — two crashes, 346 dead, and a flight-control system called MCAS that most of the pilots flying the plane had never been told existed. Lion Air Flight 610 went down in October 2018. Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 went down five months later. Both caused by the same system activating on a single faulty sensor, pushing the nose down more than twenty times before the crews lost control.
We trace the engineering decision that created MCAS, Boeing's decision to remove it from the pilot manual, the…
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