US congressional report blames Boeing, FAA for failures that led to 737 MAX crashes

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An 18-month investigation by the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee said faulty assumptions, a lack of transparency and insufficient oversight by the Federal Aviation Administration led to two Boeing 737 Max crashes that killed 346 in Indonesia and Ethiopia in 2018 and 2019. Host Marco Werman speaks with Zipporah Kuria, whose father, Joseph Waithaka, was killed in the Ethiopian crash.

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