Boeing 737 MAX groundings

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The Boeing 737 MAX passenger airliner was grounded worldwide between March 2019 and December 2020 after 346 people died in two similar crashes in less than five months, and briefly grounded in January 2024 following a dangerous in-flight accident. The accidents leading to the 2019–2020 grounding were Lion Air Flight 610 on October 29, 2018 and Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 on March 10, 2019. On March 11 the Federal Aviation Administration said it did not yet have data to take action. On March 13 the FAA said evidence showed "similarities" between the two crashes and grounded the aircraft, an action already taken after the second crash by 51 other regulators. All 387 aircraft delivered to airlines were grounded by March 18. Official investigations concluded that a new automated flight control feature—the Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System (MCAS)—contributed to both crashes. During development of the airplane in 2016, the FAA approved Boeing's request to remove references to...

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