The Boeing 737 MAX stall-prevention system was likely activated during Ethiopian's doomed flight, the airline's CEO says in an interview
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia—Ethiopian Airlines’ chief executive said a stall-prevention system on Boeing Co.’s 737 MAX appears to have been activated on a jet that crashed earlier this month—the first time an aviation official familiar with the flight has specifically said that the system could have been switched on during the accident.
The system, called the Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System, or MCAS, has been under scrutiny in another deadly 737 MAX crash last year. Tewolde Gebremariam, the Ethiopian carrier’s chief...
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