The Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System, or MCAS, is a flight control software function developed by Boeing to help stabilize aircraft pitch under specific flight conditions. It works by ...

Similarities between the Lion Air and Ethiopian Airlines crashes have focused attention on an anti-stalling system used in the new Boeing 737 Max 8 aircraft. The Maneuvering Characteristics ...

After the Lion Air 610 disaster last year, we learned the Boeing 737 Max 8 was equipped with a new system designed to automatically prevent stalls under certain conditions. Pilots had never been ...

(Reuters) - Boeing Co won approval on Wednesday from the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration to fly its 737 MAX jet again after two fatal crashes that triggered two years of regulatory scrutiny and ...

After the crash of Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302, suspicion almost instantly fell on the plane's 737 Max 8's new anti-stall system, known as MCAS (Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System).

(Reuters) - Boeing Co engineers working on the 737 MAX passenger plane's flight-control system omitted safeguards included in an earlier version of the system used on a military tanker jet, The Wall ...

I don’t have a doctorate in engineering, but I have over 9,000 hours flying Boeing’s 737-800 and the 737 MAX. As an instructor pilot for a major U.S. airline, I fly with new captains and first ...