DUBLIN — If you are looking for a tale that highlights everything that can go wrong in a complex and difficult project managed by a sprawling and gigantic company, look no further. The story of how the Boeing 737 Max 8 came to be the plane falling out of the sky in Indonesia and Ethiopia is a story of many small failures by many parties. To me, this really underscores just how complicated our modern world has become. Technology has advanced dramatically, making our world safer than ever before. But the systems we have in place to monitor, assess, and quality check all the new tech are strained – sometimes strained beyond capacity. I'm not convinced that anyone involved was acting out of malice or evil. It seems more like Boeing was in a rush to get the plane into the skies and was willing to make some optimistic assumptions and grease some palms to make that happen. But it turns out that carelessness and haste can have consequences just as severe as anything malevolent. There are plenty of terror attacks with a lower body count than the 737 Max. – Felicity Duncan

How Boeing's 737 MAX failed

By Andy Pasztor, Andrew Tangel, Robert Wall and Alison Sider

Boeing needed the redesign of its crucial 737 jetliner to go swiftly and smoothly, so it pursued a path that reduced regulatory scrutiny and accommodated its biggest customer by requiring as little new training for pilots as possible.

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