Four Seconds to Respond? Faulty Assumptions Led to 737 Disasters
- Flawed certification detailed in Indonesian accident report
- Boeing, FAA underestimated the potential for a failure
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The flight-control feature implicated in two fatal crashes on Boeing Co.’s 737 Max was built on a foundation of false assumptions.
Boeing underestimated its risks, didn’t consider how changes to the system would heighten the danger, and kept some of the government regulators overseeing the plane’s design in the dark, a by Indonesian investigators concluded.