The Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System, or MCAS, is a flight control software function developed by Boeing to help stabilize aircraft pitch under specific flight conditions. It works by ...

Similarities between the Lion Air and Ethiopian Airlines crashes have focused attention on an anti-stalling system used in the new Boeing 737 Max 8 aircraft. The Maneuvering Characteristics ...

Boeing's MCAS anti-stall system, which was implicated in the October crash of a 737 MAX 8 in Indonesia, was also activated shortly before a recent accident in Ethiopia, a source with knowledge of the ...