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 ...

It is disappointing to see Holman Jenkins, Jr. continue to claim that pilot error caused two fatal Boeing 737 MAX 8 crashes (“Boeing’s ‘Culture’ Needs Profits ...

Similarities between the Lion Air and Ethiopian Airlines crashes, confirmed by black box data, have focused attention on an anti-stalling system used in the new Boeing 737 Max 8 aircraft. The crash of ...

The NTSB chair accused the FAA of "downplaying" issues with some Boeing 737 Max jets. Jennifer Homendy said more than 40 airlines outside the US could be operating jets with risky rudder parts. It ...

In what some pilots are calling an inconceivable moment in flight operations and training, Boeing recently admitted the existence of the maneuvering characteristics augmentation system (MCAS), an ...

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 ...