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Boeing's crash course

There is an understandable temptation to look for silver linings in the wake of tragedy

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Book Cover (FLYING BLIND: The 737 Max Tragedy and the Fall of Boeing)

David Gelles | NYT
FLYING BLIND: The 737 Max Tragedy and the Fall of Boeing
Author: Peter Robison
Publisher: Doubleday
Pages: 336
Price: $36

In October, a federal grand jury indicted a former Boeing test pilot named Mark Forkner, accusing him of deceiving the Federal Aviation Administration and scheming to defraud airlines during the development of the 737 Max, two of which crashed within five months of each other, killing 346 people.

Identifying a chief villain has a way of simplifying complex narratives. But while Mr Forkner does appear to have hoodwinked regulators and misled customers, he was hardly the one most responsible for the two 737 Max crashes in