Ethiopian crash victims want 737 Max documents from Boeing, FAA

A lawyer for victims of Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 said Tuesday he wants Boeing and the US FAA to hand over documents about the decision to keep the Boeing 737 MAX in the air after a deadly Lion Air crash last October. A week after Lion Air Flight 610 nose-dived into the Java Sea, the FAA warned airlines that erroneous inputs from an automated flight control system's sensors could lead the jet to automatically pitch its nose down, but the agency allowed the jets to continue flying. Five months later, the same system was blamed for playing a role when ET302 crashed. "The decisions to keep those planes in service are key," Robert Clifford of Clifford Law Offices, which represents families of the Ethiopian crash victims, said at a status hearing before US judge Jorge Alonso in Chicago. <br/>