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Boeing 737 MAX-8 Scandal Grows: Doomed Lion Air Flight Should Never Have Flown

DANGEROUS WAIT

New reports say the jet was saved by a third pilot. The next crew wasn’t so lucky. Yet nobody thought it would happen again. It did—twice.

Clive Irving
Clive Irving
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Clive Irving

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