Pieces of the wreckage of an Ethiopia Airlines Boeing 737 Max 8 aircraft. (Stringer/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock)The software at issue in two deadly crashes of Boeing 737 Max jetliners runs on two identical computer processors tucked inside a small metal box the size of a toaster. The company said Friday that it would decrease its 737 Max production rate from 52 aircraft per month to 42. Boeing’s 737 Max planes are the subject of congressional inquiries, a federal audit and a criminal probe by the Justice Department. According to communications between Boeing and 737 customers reviewed by The Post, Collins built the 737 Max flight-control computer and wrote the software code that contains MCAS, among other components of the plane.

Source: Ethiopian News April 05, 2019 21:09 UTC