{"id":278296,"date":"2019-05-21T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-21T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CAIiEE903BLW1380z7Iu89BdZTcqGAgEKg8IACoHCAow1tzJATDnyxUwmK20AQ?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-09-20T11:28:31","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T15:28:31","slug":"wsj-a-boeing-official-played-down-a-bird-strike-scenario-linked-to-the-doomed-ethiopian-max","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/278296","title":{"rendered":"WSJ: a Boeing official played down a bird-strike scenario linked to the doomed Ethiopian Max"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In May 2019 the Wall Street Journal reported that four weeks after faulty sensor data helped bring down a 737 Max in Indonesia, a Boeing executive raised and then dismissed the possibility that a bird collision scenario could create a similar disaster, a discussion that later mattered for understanding Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302.<\/p>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"780\" width=\"780\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-423193\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Ethiopian-Cargo-777-8-freighter-Photo-Boeing-scaled.jpg?fit=780%2C780&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"WSJ: a Boeing official played down a bird-strike scenario linked to the doomed Ethiopian Max\" \/>\n<p>Investigators and families focused on how the Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System reacted to bad angle-of-attack data. Internal company talk about other trigger paths became part of the public fight over what Boeing knew and when.<\/p>\n<p>ET302 remains the deadliest single aviation event of Abiy Ahmed\u2019s early years for Ethiopia\u2019s national carrier. Corporate email and meeting notes still shape that record.<\/p>\n<p>Kept as ET302 investigation archive, the WSJ report dates a specific Boeing internal judgment that critics later read against the Ethiopian crash.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/boeing-official-played-down-scenario-that-may-have-doomed-ethiopian-jet-11558411801\">Wall Street Journal<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boeing Official Played Down Scenario That May Have Doomed Ethiopian Jet&nbsp;&nbsp;The Wall Street JournalFour weeks after faulty sensor data led a 737 MAX jet to crash in Indonesia last year, a Boeing executive raised and dismissed the possibility of &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":423193,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-278296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Ethiopian-Cargo-777-8-freighter-Photo-Boeing-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C1440&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1aoE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278296"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":754839,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278296\/revisions\/754839"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/423193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}