{"id":386028,"date":"2020-11-25T09:17:57","date_gmt":"2020-11-25T03:47:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=386028"},"modified":"2020-11-25T11:32:25","modified_gmt":"2020-11-25T06:02:25","slug":"boeings-737-max-is-a-saga-of-capitalism-gone-awry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/boeings-737-max-is-a-saga-of-capitalism-gone-awry\/","title":{"rendered":"Boeing\u2019s 737 Max is a saga of capitalism gone awry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a Boeing 737 Max jet plunged into the ocean off the coast of Indonesia in October 2018, killing all 189 passengers and crew members aboard, Boeing quickly diagnosed the problem: faulty software. The company immediately promised to fix the code, reminded pilots how to handle a potential malfunction and insisted the Max was safe. <\/p>\n<p>And yet, less than five months later, another 737 Max crashed, this time in Ethiopia. Once again, the new software \u2014 known as the Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System, or MCAS \u2014 was identified as the culprit. With a total of 346 people now dead, the Max was grounded worldwide, plunging Boeing into its biggest crisis ever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a Boeing 737 Max jet plunged into the ocean off the coast of Indonesia in October 2018, killing all 189 passengers and crew members aboard, Boeing quickly diagnosed the problem: faulty software. The company immediately promised to fix the code, reminded pilots how to handle a potential malfunction and insisted the Max was safe. And yet, less than five months later, another 737 Max crashed, this time in Ethiopia. Once again, the new software \u2014 known as the Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System, or MCAS \u2014 was identified as the culprit. With a total of 346 people now dead, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[176,146,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-386028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=386028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386028\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}