The Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System, or MCAS, is a flight control software function developed by Boeing to help stabilize aircraft pitch under specific flight conditions. It works by ...
It is disappointing to see Holman Jenkins, Jr. continue to claim that pilot error caused two fatal Boeing 737 MAX 8 crashes (“Boeing’s ‘Culture’ Needs Profits ...
The NTSB chair accused the FAA of "downplaying" issues with some Boeing 737 Max jets. Jennifer Homendy said more than 40 airlines outside the US could be operating jets with risky rudder parts. It ...
Similarities between the Lion Air and Ethiopian Airlines crashes, confirmed by black box data, have focused attention on an anti-stalling system used in the new Boeing 737 Max 8 aircraft. The ...
After the Lion Air 610 disaster last year, we learned the Boeing 737 Max 8 was equipped with a new system designed to automatically prevent stalls under certain conditions. Pilots had never been ...
Boeing's MCAS anti-stall system, which was implicated in the October crash of a 737 MAX 8 in Indonesia, was also activated shortly before a recent accident in Ethiopia, a source with knowledge of the ...
I don’t have a doctorate in engineering, but I have over 9,000 hours flying Boeing’s 737-800 and the 737 MAX. As an instructor pilot for a major U.S. airline, I fly with new captains and first ...
Catherine Berthet (C) of France, whose daughter Camille was killed in the Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 Boeing 737 MAX crash, speaks alongside other family members of victims during a press conference ...
U.S. District Chief Judge Reed O’Connor will consider whether to allow prosecutors to dismiss the felony conspiracy charge against Boeing related to the crashes that killed 346 people in Indonesia and ...