Ethiopian 737 MAX crash families set to obtain key Boeing documents

Families of victims of the deadly 2019 Ethiopian Airlines jet crash may obtain as soon as Thursday Boeing’s reports to US regulators that helped keep its 737 MAX flying after a prior disaster with the same jet in Indonesia five months earlier. The NTSB, an independent US government investigative agency, told Boeing in a letter on Monday it should turn over nearly 2,000 documents to lawyers representing families who want to determine what the company knew about its flight systems after the Indonesian crash on Lion Air. The agency said international rules mandate the release of the documents after two years from the crash date, even though Ethiopia has yet to produce a final crash report which the agency cited in blocking the documents until now, according to the letter. Boeing said it plans to produce the investigation-related information to the plaintiffs beginning Friday following the NTSB guidance that, at the second anniversary of the Ethiopian accident, the restrictions would be lifted.<br/>