WASHINGTON/SINGAPORE — An international panel of air-safety regulators on Friday harshly criticized the US Federal Aviation Administration's review of a safety system on Boeing's 737 Max jet ...

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Boeing is developing new software for MCAS. Boeing has admitted it was aware of a flaw on board the 737 Max months before the first accident, involving a Lion Air jet off the coast of Indonesia.

This failure caused the AoA sensor to provide erroneous values to the 737 MAX’s flight computer, triggering the infamous Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System (MCAS). As a consequence ...

Pilots and test crew members from the US Federal Aviation Administration and Boeing aim to kick off a certification test campaign for the 737 Max on Monday ... known as MCAS faulted in both ...

Most of the updates will be to the 737 Max's Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System (MCAS). To fit the Max's larger, more fuel-efficient engines, Boeing had to position the engine farther ...

Following the two fatal crashes, investigators blamed a computer system — called MCAS — that sent bad data to the plane’s horizontal stabilizer that controls the 737 Max’s movement up and ...

Boeing's 737 MAX planes were grounded globally last month ... Among the changes, the MCAS will no longer repeatedly make corrections when the pilot tries to regain control, and will automatically ...

WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) – Boeing agreed to plead guilty to a fraud charge associated with the crashes of two 737 Max airplanes in ... deceived the FAA about MCAS, a new flight control system ...

Federal prosecutors announced Thursday that Boeing will pay over $2.5 billion to settle criminal accusations that it misled the government about the 737 Max’s flight control software before two ...