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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Via AP news wire

Report: FAA overruled engineers, let Boeing Max keep flying

Copyright 2020 The Associated Press. All rights reserved

Some engineers for the Federal Aviation Administration wanted to ground the Boeing 737 Max soon after a second deadly crash, but top officials in the agency overruled them, according to a government watchdog.

The inspector general of the Transportation Department said in a new report that FAA officials wanted to sort out raw data about the two crashes, and held off grounding the plane despite growing international pressure.

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