Boeing has implemented changes among its top engineering team as it works to deal with the fallout of 2 recent crashes and subsequent grounding of the 737 Max 8. John Hamilton has been named chief engineer, whereas previously he was both a VP and chief engineer. In his changed role, he will focus on the crash investigations into Lion Air flight JT610 and Ethiopian Airlines flight ET302. "In this capacity, Hamilton is responsible for bringing the necessary engineering resources and capabilities together from across the company to work through the major accident investigations and other technical risks impacting Commercial Airplanes products and businesses," says the company. Until the middle of 2013, Hamilton was the VP/chief project engineer for the 737 programme. <br/>
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The decision by Europe and Canada to break with US air-safety regulators over the safety of the Boeing 737 Max is likely to delay the resumption of flights after 2 of the jets crashed. The Europeans and Canadians vow to conduct their own reviews of Boeing's changes to a key flight-control system, not to simply take the FAA's word that the alterations are safe. Those reviews scramble an ambitious schedule set by Boeing and could undercut the FAA's reputation around the world. Boeing hopes by Monday to finish an update to software that can automatically point the nose of the plane sharply downward in some circumstances to avoid an aerodynamic stall, according to people briefed on FAA presentations to congressional committees. <br/>