Bloomberg Boeing Co engineers discovered in 2017 that a software glitch had rendered a warning light on the newly introduced 737 Max inoperable on 80% of the planes. But the company chose not to fix it or to inform US regulators. The next year, a Lion Air jet suffered the malfunction the alert was designed to detect and crashed in …

Bloomberg An interim report into the deadly Boeing Co 737 Max crash in Ethiopia that led to the grounding of the US company’s top-selling model is set to be released in time for the first anniversary of the tragedy. The report will be published by March 10, Ethiopian Transport Ministry spokesman Musie Yehyies told Bloomberg. The decision not to release …

Bloomberg The airline industry expects the first annual decline in global passenger demand in 11 years, after tallying up the initial impact of the thousands of flights cancelled because of the coronavirus outbreak in China. The estimate shaves about 4.7 percentage points off of a passenger-traffic forecast issued just two months ago, with almost all of the impact in the …