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Boeing 737 MAX Crisis

Product Safety and Operational Crises

Two crashes of the Boeing 737 MAX, Lion Air Flight 610 in October 2018 and Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 in March 2019, killed 346 people combined and were traced to a flawed automated flight-control system (MCAS) that repeatedly pushed the aircraft's nose down based on faulty sensor data. Regulators worldwide grounded the entire 737 MAX fleet for nearly two years, and subsequent investigations exposed failures in Boeing's internal safety culture and the FAA's certification oversight, costing Boeing more than 20 billion dollars and severely damaging its reputation. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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Event Type
Safety crisis 1
Event Year
2019 1
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1. Wikipedia, Boeing 737 MAX Groundings
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  • Lead section, opening paragraph
    The Boeing 737 MAX passenger airliner was grounded worldwide between March 2019 and December 2020 after 346 people died in two similar crashes in less than five months, and briefly in January 2024 following a dangerous in-flight incident.
  • Associated With: The Boeing Company
  • Companies Involved: The Boeing Company
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Associated With: Operations, Classified by subject-matter domain of the corporate event (w-bbfill-business-other-0926); cites the discipline definition.View the Source
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