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The past 10 months have not been good for Boeing for all sorts of reasons—capped off in December by the failure of the company’s Starliner commercial crew vehicle to achieve the right orbit in its uncrewed debut. But the biggest of the company’s problems remains the 737 MAX, grounded since …

Software eating the world may sound good to tech mavens. But the now eight-year-old maxim has its serious downsides. Software defects have been blamed for Boeing 737-MAX 8 crashes in October and March, which killed 346 people. The aircraft has been grounded worldwide for three months, as investigators from Indonesia …

Two fatal crashes in the past six months, which together killed 346 people, have forced all Boeing 737 MAX 8 aircraft out of the sky, as the airplane maker and regulators around the world seek the causes of the accidents and changes to prevent future crashes. But fallout from the …

Here at WIRED Transportation, we get to write about all sorts of stuff. Self-driving cars. Hyperloops. Bike lane design. Subway maps. The occasional man dressed up as a car seat for an apparently legitimate purpose. You get the idea. So it’s rare when a mere one or two topics dominate …

The investigation into the crash of an Ethiopian Airlines 737 MAX 8, which killed 157 people on Sunday, is still in its earliest stages, but already regulators around the world have grounded the Boeing jet. The American FAA issued its own grounding order today, noting that, based on the wreckage …

When an Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 MAX 8 jet crashed shortly after takeoff from Addis Ababa on Sunday morning, killing all 157 people aboard, observers quickly noted that the circumstances resembled those of another flight. In October, Lion Air Flight 610 crashed into the Java Sea, killing all 181 passengers …

Investigators are still working to discover exactly what went wrong with a Lion Air flight in Indonesia on Monday, October 29, when a Boeing 737 MAX plunged into the Java Sea, killing all 189 people onboard. But the initial findings have highlighted a possible sensor problem, and that has been …