Boeing built an unsafe plane, and blamed the pilots when it crashed

Cost-cutting and corporate arrogance lay behind the devastating crashes of two Boeing 737 Max aircraft

Shoes found during the search for victims from the ill-fated Lion Air flight JT 610 Boeing 737-Max in 2018. Picture: Bay Ismoyo/AFP/Getty Images

In this exclusive extract From 'Flying Blind: The 737 Max Tragedy and the Fall of Boeing' Peter Robison counts down the last moments of Lion Air Flight 610 in which 189 people died, followed just months later by the crash of Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 which claimed a further 157 lives, including that of Clare man Mick Ryan 

As passengers filed in behind them and stowed their bags that morning in Jakarta in October 2018, the Lion Air pilots completed their pre-flight checks amid the modern comforts of the Boeing 737 Max 8.