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Boeing’s 737 Max Was a Scandal. It’s Turning Into a Success
Orders are pouring in for the single-aisle jet, and it won’t be long before passengers have little choice but to fly on one or be left at the gate.
Grounded and unsafe to fly in Jakarta in 2019.
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Just three years after the crash of Lion Air Flight 610 shortly after takeoff from Jakarta precipitated a chain of events leading to the worldwide grounding of Boeing’s flagship 737 Max 8 plane, a strange thing is happening.
The single-aisle jet — whose crashes in Indonesia and, less than five months later, outside Ethiopia’s capital, Addis Ababa, “exposed fraudulent and deceptive” behavior and criminal misconduct by Boeing employees, in the words of the U.S. Department of Justice — is looking more and more like becoming a commercial success story.