In an internal ethics complaint, Boeing engineer Curtis Ewbank says that during the development of the 737 MAX the plan maker rejected a safety system that might have prevented the fatal crashes in Indonesia and Ethiopia in order to cut costs save time. Those two crashes claimed the lives of 346 people. According to the […]
$115 Million Awarded for Deaths of Flight Crew Members in Afghanistan Cargo Plane Crash
A jury has awarded $115 million to the families of three crew members killed in a crash of a National Airlines Boeing 747-400 cargo plane in 2013. The crash took place within minutes of liftoff from an airfield in Bagram Afghanistan. The plane was overloaded and the cargo inadequately secured. Shifting cargo ultimately caused damage […]