In October, a federal grand jury indicted a former Boeing test pilot named Mark Forkner, accusing him of deceiving the Federal Aviation Administration and scheming to defraud airlines during the development of the 737 Max, two of which crashed within five months of each other, killing 346 people.
It might be tempting to view the indictment as a sort of resolution to the 737 Max ordeal. Identifying a chief villain has a way of simplifying complex narratives and here, at last, was someone to blame. But while Forkner does appear to have hoodwinked regulators and misled customers, he was hardly the one most responsible for the two 737 Max crashes, which occurred in 2018 and 2019.
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