How Boeing’s Bean-Counters Courted the 737 MAX Disaster

Anadolu Agency/GettyIt was 1964 and Gerhard Holtje was very angry with Boeing.His title, managing director and chief engineer of the German national airline, Lufthansa, understated his importance. With vision and demanding technical skills he had played a key part in taking Lufthansa into the Jet Age and establishing it as a world class airline.He did that with Boeing’s help. The two first commercial jets Boeing built, the intercontinental 707 and the shorter-range 727, delivered what he d