This week, we got an inside look at a closed-door meeting where Boeing tried to reassure 737 Max stakeholders, including airlines, pilots, and flight attendants who fly the plane.
Meanwhile, during a Congressional hearing with the FAA chief — who has been in the job since August — we learned that an internal FAA analysis done after the first Boeing 737 Max crash found a high likelihood of future crashes. But the agency let the plane keep flying anyway, while Boeing quietly began work on a fix.
After a leaked e-mail revealed it was extremely unlikely that Boeing's timeline to restore the Max to service would hold, American Airlines chose to cancel Max flights into April, the first airline to go that late.