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    Boeing says it will update 737 Max software that was implicated in crashes

    by Samantha Masunaga, Richard Read and Ralph Vartabedian, Los Angeles Times Mar 27, 2019 5 minutes

    Boeing Co. will modify the flight control system of its 737 Max jetliner so its software cannot send the aircraft into a series of uncontrolled dives, as it may have done in two crashes over the last five months, the company said Wednesday.

    In an additional step, Boeing will also recommend increased pilot training and make standard a cockpit display of data from air flow sensors outside the plane.

    The changes are Boeing's attempt to respond to preliminary findings that automated features in the 737 Max's flight control system may have contributed to two fatal crashes: a Lion Air flight in Indonesia that killed 189 people in October and an Ethiopian Airlines flight in March that killed 157.

    The company and its federal regulators have been criticized for responding slowly to potential

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