On Oct. 29, 2018, Indonesian carrier Lion Air’s Flight 610 crashed into the Java Sea shortly after takeoff. Nineteen weeks later, Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302, headed to Kenya, also crashed, leavi…
— is the riveting, often rending tale of those crashes and the jet that links them.
When Boeing unveiled the retooled 737 Max, it promised airlines that the tweaks would not be dramatic enough to require expensive pilot simulation training. The airlines bit and bought an unprecedented number of jets. Both the airlines and the Federal Aviation Administration trusted Boeing. “Downfall” methodically shows why that confidence was misplaced.
Shortly after the black box recorders were recovered for flight 302, questions about the plane’s design, already raised after the Lion Air crash, became impossible to ignore — except for Boeing’s higher ups, including then CEO Dennis Muilenburg. Initially, the company tried to put the responsibility for the tragedies on the pilots for not knowing how to handle the dramatic malfunction of the plane’s pitch stabilizing system. But the pilots Kennedy interviews offer a damning rebuff to that claim.
Engineer Cynthia Cole is among the former Boeing employees who speak with pride about the Seattle-based manufacturer. Hers and other employees add a different layer of loss to this saga. “If it ain’t Boeing, I ain’t going,” was a saying.
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