The New Paper

September 16, 2020

House Transportation Committee releases final report on 737 max

1. The House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee released its final report on the Boeing 737 Max. The report notes that a combination of design flaws, faulty assumptions, and management failures (by both Boeing and the FAA) played “instrumental and causative roles” in the errors leading to the plane’s two fatal crashes.

More context: The 737 Max was grounded in March of 2019 after two fatal crashes killed 346 people in Indonesia (October 2018) and Ethiopia (March 2019).

Extra: Here's the full report.

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