Two fatal Boeing 737 MAX crashes — Lion Air Flight 610 in October 2018 and Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 in March 2019 — killed 346 people and exposed how the world’s largest aerospace company had prioritized speed to market over safety. Investigators found that Boeing had deliberately kept pilots in the dark about the MCAS flight control system, and that regulators at the FAA had outsourced much of their oversight directly to Boeing employees. The subsequent 20-month global grounding cost the company over $20 billion and triggered a criminal settlement, congressional investigations, and a fundamental reckoning over aviation safety culture.
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