On 14 May 2019 the New York Times reported that after the first deadly 737 Max crash, Boeing executives in a tense meeting with American Airlines pilots insisted the jet was safe and resisted more aggressive corrective steps pilots were demanding.
The article landed weeks after Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 killed 157 people near Bishoftu, turning a Lion Air disaster into a global grounding fight. Ethiopian families and African aviation voices watched Boeing’s U.S. pilot politics because the second crash had happened on Ethiopian soil with an Ethiopian crew.
Corporate resistance to pilot warnings is part of the ET302 accountability record, not only an American labor story.
Kept as aviation archive, the NYT file documents Boeing’s posture before the Ethiopian crash and helps readers see why trust collapsed so fast afterward.
Sources: The New York Times