These are worrying hours for Boeing Co and tragic ones for 157 families. The second crash of a 737 Max jet in five months raises inevitable questions about the safety of the US manufacturers flagship single-aisle aircraft, even though its still not known what caused the latest disaster. The company must respond with total transparency and hope there was nothing it could have done to have avoided Sundays crash in Ethiopia.
We don’t know whether what happened to the Ethiopian Airlines plane was the same thing that brought down a Lion Air jet in October and a rush to judgement helps nobody, including the people who’ve lost their lives and their loved ones.
