{"id":426979,"date":"2026-05-13T11:00:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T01:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/safety-failures-forced-aviation-change\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T11:00:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T01:00:18","slug":"boeing-737-max-beyond-the-safety-scandals-that-forced-aviation-to-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=426979","title":{"rendered":"Boeing 737 MAX &amp; Beyond: The Safety Scandals That Forced Aviation To Change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In recent history, one of the largest scandals within the aviation industry was that of the cover-up of the MCAS software by American manufacturer, <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"60363\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/boeing\/\"  >Boeing<\/a><\/span>, on its <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"3525558\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/boeing-737-max\/\"  >737 MAX<\/a><\/span> aircraft. While it initially went unnoticed, the spotlight quickly shone on the aircraft and its systems after two crashes of a similar nature occurred within a few months. This then led to a worldwide grounding of the aircraft type for nearly two years, during which extensive investigations were conducted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The aircraft type has been subjected to intense scrutiny from passengers and regulators worldwide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,2958,398,718,995,420,16569,43,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-426979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-aviation-safety","category-boeing","category-boeing-737-max","category-boeing-787","category-faa","category-manufacturers","category-safety","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=426979"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":426980,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426979\/revisions\/426980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=426979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=426979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=426979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}