Boeing Co. Chief Executive Officer Dennis Muilenburg apologized Thursday for the 346 lives lost in crashes of Boeing 737 MAX 8 aircraft in Indonesia and Ethiopia, according to a letter made public The Spin There has been a great deal of back and forth over the reasons two Boeing 737 MAX airliners took the lives of 346 innocent souls. At the core of the problem is the classic duality of man vs. machine. Were the crashes the result of incompetent pilots and failure to follow procedures (The Man) or was … Continue reading The Human Factors Science Behind The 737MAX MCAS Problem and Why Half of Boeing's sales come from the 737 Max. According to Boeing and the FAA, the problem first became apparent during testing of a newly manufactured 737 Max 8, which had yet to be delivered to Fixing these engines to the 737’s wings put Boeing’s engineers up against some unique and challenging problems caused by the age of the jet’s basic design, originating in the mid-1960s. The One of many accusations in a damning new Senate report. Boeing and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) worked together to manipulate 737 Max recertification tests following two fatal crashes A Boeing 737 Max 8. another 737 Max 8, crashed after taking off from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Investigations showed that both crashes included issues with the MCAS. As a result, in March Last modified on Thu 11 Nov 2021 11.32 EST. Boeing has admitted full responsibility for the second crash of its 737 Max model in Ethiopia, in a legal agreement with families of the 157 victims Had Boeing personnel all been on the same page, the FAA might have caught the issues with MCAS before they became deadly. As Boeing works toward rectifying problems with the 737 Max 8, it has also qTljG0F.