US Prosecutors examining the Boeing 737 Max Certification process

The worlds largest aircraft manufacture, Boeing, suffered a drop in it's share price as "clear similarities" were found between two crashes of their 737 Max passenger jet.

The incident has led to questions about how the aircraft type had been certified both in the US and Europe in regards the the process of the aircraft gaining it's airworthiness certificate.

In a further blow to the aviation giant the Seattle Times (who are based in the company's home town) have claimed that Boeing have too much influence over the Federal Aviation Authority's (FAA) safety approval processes.

This news follows the crash of a Ethiopian Airlines 737 Max jet which crashed on March 10th 2019 killing 157 people. A separate crash, five months earlier, killed 189 people aboard a Lion Air jet.

In both instances the pilots reported controlability problems which led to "steep climbs" followed by dives into the terrain.

This new jet was designed to compete against the Airbus A320 and as such had been redesigned to include a mechanism called a Manoeuvering Characteristics Augmentation System (MCAS) which acts on behalf of the pilot if it feels the aircraft is entering a particularly dangerous phase of flight.

MCAS was omitted from the pilots training manuals in order to "minimise the training needs" of pilots who previously flew the older 737 jets. US Investigators and prosecutors are examining the safety of the 737 jet and it's certification process. 

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