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Boeing Boosts 737 Max Safety With Spacecraft, Drone Technology

Boeing Co. is preparing to bolster the long-term safety of its troubled 737 Max with technology borrowed from space vehicles and urban drones that can provide data to help back up its sensors. The system — known as synthetic air …

Boeing to Detail 737 Max Fixes with Regulators, Pilots

Boeing Co. plans to meet this week with customers and regulators to explain the measures it’s taking to get its 737 Max back into service, after the aircraft was grounded following two deadly crashes in less than five months. The …

U.S. Probe of 737 Max, Pilot Manuals Said to Have Begun in 2018

U.S. investigators began an inquiry into a stall-prevention feature in Boeing Co.’s 737 Max jets just weeks after a Lion Air jet plunged into the Java Sea off the coast of Indonesia, people familiar with the matter said. A law …

Boeing 737 Max Black-Box Analysis Gets Underway

Air-crash experts are gathering in Ethiopia to analyze black-box data from a Boeing Co. 737 Max jetliner as controversy over the model’s safety intensifies following two fatal disasters in less than five months. Ethiopian Airlines said Thursday that the plane’s …

FAA Says Boeing 737 Max is Airworthy Despite 2nd Crash

U.S. aviation regulators signaled their confidence in the safety of Boeing Co.’s embattled 737 Max jetliner, issuing a global notice of “continued airworthiness” a day after the model’s second deadly crash in less than five months. There isn’t conclusive evidence …

Air Crashes Set Year on Course to Be Deadliest Since 2005

Three fatal airline crashes in a week mean 2014 is shaping up to become the worst year in almost a decade for passenger fatalities. The crash of a McDonnell Douglas MD-83 aircraft on the fringes of the Sahara desert yesterday …