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  • boeing "Piss poor design" and "supervised by monkeys": New documents show what Boeing employees really thought of 737 Max Carla Sinclair
  • aviation Technical problems — not missiles — may have downed Ukrainian airliner in Iran, say some intel experts Xeni Jardin
  • Journalism VICTORY! New Free File rules ban tax-prep firms from hiding their offerings, allow IRS to compete with them (a love-letter to Propublica) Cory Doctorow
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  • mistakes How flight crew exhaustion almost led to America's worst airline disaster Rob Beschizza
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