Fatal crashes. A door blowout. Grounded planes. Inside the citizen-led, obsessive campaign to hold Boeing accountable and ...

"The JATR team found that the MCAS was not evaluated as ... adequate safety oversight. Read more: Boeing executives reportedly rejected a safety system in the 737 Max because it was too expensive ...

Boeing tried to shift the blame onto the pilots. But investigations later revealed that the problem was a piece of software — the maneuvering characteristics augmentation system (MCAS ...

Boeing has issued guidance to pilots on how to manage MCAS, and it plans to install an extra warning system on all 737 Max aircraft, which was previously an optional safety feature. It is also ...

The issue is whether Boeing and the Federal Aviation Administration properly analyzed the function of the MCAS flight control system. The Seattle Times reports that a Boeing safety analysis may ...

The Manoeuvring Characteristics Augmentation System (MCAS) is designed to keep the plane from stalling and react to sensors Boeing has issued changes to controversial control systems linked to two ...

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neither the Lion Air nor the Ethiopian flight crew knew how to shut down the system, which would have been a multistep process. By March 2019, Boeing unveiled a software update to avoid MCAS bugs ...

The system is designed to push the nose of the airplane down ... a fleet of 737 aircraft since it began flying in 1971. The union claims the MCAS is the result of Boeing’s decision to use the newer, ...

Boeing last week gathered hundreds of pilots and reporters for a presentation on proposed MCAS changes – including the system no longer repeatedly making corrections when pilots try to regain control.