Bloomberg:
Piece Found At Ethiopian Airlines Crash Site Shows Jet Was Set To Dive
A screw-like device found in the wreckage of the Boeing 737 Max that crashed last Sunday in Ethiopia indicates the plane was configured to dive.
World | (c) 2019 Bloomberg | Alan Levin, Bloomberg | Updated: March 15, 2019 15:33 IST
A screw-like device found in the wreckage of the Boeing 737 Max that crashed last Sunday in Ethiopia indicates the plane was configured to dive, a piece of evidence that helped convince U.S. regulators to ground the model, a person familiar with the investigation said late Thursday night.
Federal Aviation Administration chief Daniel Elwell on Wednesday cited unspecified evidence found at the crash scene as part of the justification for the agency to reverse course and temporarily halt flights of Boeing's largest selling aircraft. Up until then, American regulators had held off as nation after nation had grounded the plane, Boeing's best-selling jet model.
The piece of evidence was a so-called jackscrew, used to set the trim that raises and lowers the plane's nose, according to the person, who requested anonymity to discuss the inquiry.
Read more at: https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/piece-found-at-ethiopian-airlines-crash-site-shows-jet-was-set-to-dive-2008100
Drudge Report posted this... and then, it also posted a 2016 computerworld article on Chinese spying on Boeiing, so, FWIW.
Chinese man indicted over theft of Boeing C-17 secrets
Jeremy Kirk
Su Bin is accused of working with two others to steal gigabytes of U.S. defense-related documents
A Chinese man has been indicted for allegedly directing two China-based hackers to infiltrate Boeing and other defense contractors to steal gigabytes of documents describing U.S. military aircraft.
Su Bin, a Chinese national in his late 40s, was indicted in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California on charges of unauthorized computer access, conspiracy, conspiracy to commit theft of trade secrets and aiding and abetting. He was arrested in Canada in June.
More at: https://www.computerworld.com/article/2491302/chinese-man-indicted-over-theft-of-boeing-c-17-secrets.html
Maybe this should be merged into the original crash thread... eventually.
