Prosecutors have been scrutinizing the development of the 737 MAX, including the flight-safety control system Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System — MCAS for short — after two devastating crashes. The first was Lion Air Flight 610 that slammed into the Java Sea Oct. 29, 2018, after departing from a Jakarta, Indonesia, airport. All tolled, 189 passengers and crew members lost their lives. The second crash, Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 went down March 10 near Bishoftu, Ethiopia. All 157 people on board perished, which led to the global groundings of the plane.

Source: Ethiopian News June 30, 2019 02:26 UTC