Trump cast himself as Boeing’s decider in chief, showing the perils of injecting politics into crash investigations
Several days after an Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 Max 8 crashed outside Ethiopia’s capital city, the Trump administration’s senior air safety official was still defending the plane. Boeing 737 Max jets are grounded at Sky Harbor International Airport in Phoenix. That feature has been blamed, in part, for the crash of the Boeing 737 Max 8 in Indonesia in October. But the way the grounding decision was rolled out was highly unusual, the experts said. Hart said the grounding of the 737 Max represented “uncharted territory” for the United States and one of its plane manufacturers.
Source: Washington Post March 17, 2019 17:37 UTC
