'What you have is an aircraft that is fighting against its own crew,' says CNN aviation analyst milesobrien of 'hauntingly parallel' similarities between flight patterns of two doomed Boeing flights
After the crash Sunday of a Boeing 737 MAX 8 aircraft in Ethiopia, questions have risen around Boeing, the Federal Aviation Administration, and why this crash occurred just months after a similar crash involving the same type of airplane.
Specifically, why was the US one of the last in line to ground this type of aircraft? And why would the FAA allow Boeing to check off safety qualifications for its own planes? Why did the US wait to ground these planes? While the US and Canada waited to restrict these aircraft from flying until solid data was available, many countries chose to ground the planes more quickly, citing"precautionary measure.
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