Boeing CEO, Dennis Muilenburg, says the plane manufacturer remains confident in the "fundamental safety" of the 737 MAX aircraft. In what is expected to be the first of many, a lawsuit stemming from the Ethiopian Airlines crash that claimed 157 lives on March 10 was filed in Chicago on Thursday. Her family has not only named Boeing and Ethiopian Airlines as defendants, but also Rosemount Aerospace Inc, the Delaware company that makes the MCAS flight control system. The system has been front and centre of the investigations into not just the Ethiopian crash, but also a Lion Air 737 MAX crash that happened five months earlier in Indonesia, claiming 189 lives. On Friday, Muilenburg said upcoming software updates to Boeing's automated control system would make it "among the safest airplanes ever to fly".

Source: Ethiopian News April 04, 2019 21:49 UTC