Flying Blind: The 737 MAX Tragedy and the Fall of Boeing Highlight

But some of those who are most knowledgeable about aircraft, including the very whistleblowers who tried to stop Boeing from pursuing a shoddy design, say that what’s still missing is an insistence on bringing the 737’s more than fifty-year-old airframe up to modern standards. In the absence of improvements, more people will find themselves waking up to the question Javier de Luis asked himself in March 2019, after learning that his sister, UN translator…