A shadow over flight’s golden age

WHEN A BOEING 737 MAX 8FAAMAXMAX crashed near Addis Ababa after take-off on March 10th, 157 people lost their lives. It did not take long for the human tragedy to raise questions about what went wrong. That has fed a crisis of trust in Boeing and in the , the American regulator which, even as its counterparts grounded the 8, left it flying for three days before President Donald Trump stepped in, suspending all planes.Mr Trump noted that Boeing was “an incredible company”. In fact the crash is a warning. After a 20-year boom, one of the West’s most sophisticated industries faces a difficult future.