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Gordon Johndroe, a Boeing spokesman, defended the development of the Max, saying that airlines wanted an updated over a new single-aisle plane and that pilots were involved in its design. At a factory near Seattle on Jan. In , Boeing had delivered just 14 of the jets, and it considered selling the program to a Japanese manufacturer, said Peter Morton, the marketing manager in the early s. Morton said.

Ultimately, Boeing invested. The eventually began to sell, bolstered by airline deregulation in Now nearly one in every three domestic flights in the United States is on a , more than any other line of aircraft.

Each of the three redesigns came with a new engine, updates to the cabin, and other changes. But Boeing avoided overhauling the jet in order to appease airlines, according to current and former Boeing executives, pilots and engineers, some of whom spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the open investigations. Airlines wanted new s to match their predecessors so pilots could skip expensive training in flight simulators and easily transition to new jets.

The Federal Aviation Administration never required simulator training for pilots switching from one to the next. It did require engineering ingenuity, to ensure a decades-old jet handled mostly the same. For instance, in the early years of the , jet travel was rapidly expanding across the world. Workers there could load bags by hand without a conveyor belt and maintain the engines without a lift, Mr.

In the decades that followed, the low frame repeatedly complicated efforts to fit bigger engines under the wing. By , Boeing executives were starting to question whether the design had run its course.

Forkner of giving the Federal Aviation Administration false and incomplete information about an automated flight-control system that played a role in the crashes, which killed people. The flight-control system automatically pushed down the noses of Max jets that crashed in in Indonesia and in Ethiopia. United is the only U. Two Japanese airlines have another 32 that are being pulled while Asiana Airlines grounded nine, seven of which were in service, until Boeing establishes a plan to fix the problems.

Korean Air said it was discussing whether to ground 16 aircraft, six of which are in service. The engine maker said it was sending a team to work with investigators. The emergency landing this past weekend is the latest trouble for Boeing, which saw its Max planes grounded for more than a year after two deadly crashes in Biggest supplier to Brooks Brothers expects to take a big hit.

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