{"id":278429,"date":"2019-05-14T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-14T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CAIiEF7YQfZj_hOB_YsIzX1sZZsqFwgEKg8IACoHCAowjuuKAzCWrzww9oAY?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-09-18T11:53:07","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T15:53:07","slug":"nyt-before-the-ethiopian-crash-boeing-resisted-pilots-calls-for-stronger-737-max-steps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/278429","title":{"rendered":"NYT: before the Ethiopian crash, Boeing resisted pilots\u2019 calls for stronger 737 Max steps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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.<\/p>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"780\" width=\"780\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-270095\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/702162955.jpg?fit=780%2C780&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"NYT: before the Ethiopian crash, Boeing resisted pilots\u2019 calls for stronger 737 Max steps\" \/>\n<p>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\u2019s U.S. pilot politics because the second crash had happened on Ethiopian soil with an Ethiopian crew.<\/p>\n<p>Corporate resistance to pilot warnings is part of the ET302 accountability record, not only an American labor story.<\/p>\n<p>Kept as aviation archive, the NYT file documents Boeing\u2019s posture before the Ethiopian crash and helps readers see why trust collapsed so fast afterward.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/05\/14\/business\/boeing-737-max-ethiopian-plane-crash.html\">The New York Times<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before Ethiopian Crash, Boeing Resisted Pilots\u2019 Calls for Aggressive Steps on 737 Max&nbsp;&nbsp;The New York TimesIn a tense meeting with American Airlines pilots shortly after the first deadly crash of Boeing&#8217;s new jet, executives insisted that the p&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":270095,"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-278429","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\/2019\/03\/702162955.jpg?fit=2400%2C1797&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1aqN","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278429","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=278429"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":754517,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278429\/revisions\/754517"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/270095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}