A crucial sensor that is the subject of a Boeing Co. safety bulletin was replaced on a Lion Air jet the day before it plunged into the Java Sea and possibly worsened other problems with the plane, ...

One of the aspects of the Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 Max crash which had remained unclear during the investigation was the cause of the original angle-of-attack sensor malfunction that initiated ...

Swapping the angle-of-attack sensor overlay plates on a Gazpromavia Yakovlev Superjet 100 led to last year’s fatal accident as the jet was being ferried from Lukhovitsy to Moscow after a maintenance ...

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The Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 MAX, which crashed in March and killed 157 people, suffered a damaged angle-of-attack sensor upon takeoff from a bird or foreign object, triggering erroneous data and ...

The crash of the Lion Air 737 MAX has caused an increased fear of flying because it was a new plane. They ask how could something go wrong with a new plane? Does this mean there is a problem with the ...

Boeing did not tell Southwest Airlines, its largest 737 Max customer, that a standard safety feature designed to warn pilots about malfunctioning sensors had been deactivated on the jets. The safety ...

In an era when a commercial flight is largely automated — usually a seamless process in an aircraft, informed by sensors and signals acting in tandem with experienced pilots — the prospect that those ...

JAKARTA, Indonesia -- Design flaws in Boeing's 737 Max jet, regulatory lapses and false assumptions about pilots' responses to new systems combined to cause last year's fatal Lion Air crash, ...

The Federal Aviation Administration is warning pilots of some Boeing 737s to be on the lookout for problems with a sensor on the aircraft. The emergency directive echoes a safety bulletin from Boeing ...