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The 737 MAX Debacle Won’t Be the End of Boeing
The company still has a surprisingly strong business — just not in launching new commercial aircraft.
Boeing’s 737 MAX hasn’t flown for more than 18 months.
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Is Boeing Co. capable of making commercial aircraft at all?
It’s worth asking after an excoriating report by a U.S. congressional committee on the circumstances leading up to the fatal crashes of two 737 MAX planes. The accidents were “the horrific culmination of a series of faulty technical assumptions by Boeing’s engineers, a lack of transparency on the part of Boeing’s management and grossly insufficient oversight” by regulators, according to the report. Pending legislation may tighten that oversight, adding to future costs.