Peter Lemme

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An employee works in the cockpit of a 737 MAX airplane at a Boeing plant in the US. Add-on features can be big money-makers for plane manufacturers. Photograph: The New York Times
Doomed Boeing jets lacked two safety features plane maker sold as extras

As the pilots of the doomed Boeing jets in Ethiopia and Indonesia fought to control their planes, they lacked two notable safety features in their coc(...)

Indonesia’s National Transportation Safety Committee investigator Nurcahyo Utomo during a news conference on its investigation into a Lion Air plane crash last month, in Jakarta on Wednesday. Photograph: Darren Whiteside/Reuters
Lion Air crash plane was ‘not airworthy’ on penultimate flight

A Lion Air jet that crashed into the sea off Indonesia last month was not in an airworthy condition on its second-to-last flight, when pilots experien(...)