Chris Bryant, Columnist

Boeing’s 737 Max Defense Just Got More Difficult

A new report throws more doubt on whether the plane can be made safe to fly again soon.

April 3, 2019 at 10:23 AM UTC

Chris Bryant is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering industrial companies in Europe. Previously, he was a reporter for the Financial Times.

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In the wake of the October crash involving a Lion Air Boeing 737 Max jet in Indonesia, Boeing Co. sent out a bulletin reminding pilots how to counteract an un-commanded descent.

The implication was that even if the passenger jet’s so-called MCAS anti-stall software malfunctions due to erroneous data and pushes the nose down, the crew should still be able to save the plane — as happened on an earlier Lion Air flight.