In the days after a Boeing Co. 737 Max 8 jet plunged into Indonesia's Java Sea last October, company officials said they were moving quickly to update plane software suspected in the crash. Six months and a second Max 8 disaster later, Boeing has yet to submit its fix to regulators. The jet's anti-stall device, known as the Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System, has now been implicated in October's Lion Air crash and last month's Ethiopian Airlines disaster, which occurred while the software fix was underway. An update turns out to be more complicated than Boeing anticipated, both politically and technically. The goal, he said, is to make the 737 Max "one of the safest airplanes ever to fly.''

Source: Ethiopian News April 18, 2019 18:56 UTC