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Their lionair should should have never been ad to take off. sources say it should have been granted because the malfunctioning. that is the sensor, like a wind vane, outside a pilots window, that feeds a crucial data to the pitch control or mcas that has been the subject of so much controversy. the sensor was mistakenly telling the mcas to put the nose down, overwriting the pilots various attempts to pull up, to pull the plane up. as weve been reporting, the way to regain control is to flick two...

And too cozy relationship between the industry and regulators. he added boeing in developing the 737 max 8 felt pressure to get the new aircraft to market as quickly as possible. we have been reporting that in the lion air crash last october, it was an off-duty pilot sitting in the cockpits jump seat that saved the plane the day before it crashed. the plane was pitching wildly. he maintained his composure and flicked two switches that deacted the mcas, the automated pitch control that has been t...