With mounting legal complaints, Boeing's crisis goes from bad to worse

Investors in Boeing - and its suppliers - should start getting used to the idea of a long delay before the Max returns to the skies

Boeing Co.’s 737 Max crisis has been largely self-inflicted, but now it’s passing some of the consequences onto its suppliers.

A crash of an Ethiopian Airlines-manned Max in March – just five months after a Lion Air jet of the same type went down – has put the planemaker at the center of a political, legal and increasingly financial firestorm where its reputation for safety is being openly questioned. 

A fix for a flight-control system that’s believed to have been a factor in both accidents is taking longer than expected amid the scrutiny, and Boeing can’t deliver the planes without it. And