As U.S. government test pilots ran through dozens of flight scenarios on the Boeing Co. 737 Max in recent weeks, a potential failure got their attention. <\/p>\n
The plane\u2019s flight computer tried to push the aircraft\u2019s nose down repeatedly during a simulator run, prompted by a stream of erroneous flight data. The Federal Aviation Administration pilot concluded commercial pilots might not have time to react and avoid a tragedy in a real plane. <\/p>\n
That flaw — the latest discovered on the family of jets involved in two fatal crashes since October triggered by a different failure that pushed their noses down — was revealed by FAA last month. It threw new uncertainty on the return to flight of the Chicago-based company\u2019s best-selling model and sent its engineers scrambling for a fix. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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