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 ...

The Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 MAX, which crashed in March and killed 157 people, suffered a damaged angle-of-attack sensor upon takeoff from a bird or foreign object, triggering erroneous data and ...

TheBoeing 737 MAX is famous among the general public, sometimes for the wrong reasons. In the late 2010s, two crashes less than five months apart claimed 346 lives and led to an unprecedented 20-month ...

Lawmakers are looking into the safety certification of the Boeing 737 MAX. Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger, the ‘‘Miracle on the Hudson’’ airplane captain who safely landed a disabled jetliner on the ...

Airlines have flown Boeing’s 737 Max jets for just eight years, but in that short time two of them crashed, killing 346 people. The Max was marketed as a more fuel-efficient version of the American ...

The Justice Department has reached a deal with Boeing that will allow the airplane giant to avoid criminal prosecution for allegedly misleading U.S. regulators about the 737 Max jetliner before two of ...