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How Boeing, US aviation agency plan to restore public faith in 737 Max

It's possible the changes will get the 737 Max back in the air within weeks, said aviation consultant Robert Mann

Boeing 737 MAX
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Boeing 737 MAX

Alan Levin, Mary Schlangenstein and Richard Clough | Bloomberg
After two deadly crashes in five months, Boeing Co. is embarking on a campaign to restore confidence in the 737 Max so that its best-selling jet can return to the skies.

In Renton, Washington, the company is gathering customers and news media Wednesday to walk through the details of a software update designed to help pilots more easily avert conditions that investigators have linked to an October disaster in Indonesia. The stall-prevention software is also under scrutiny in a second deadly crash this month in Ethiopia.

Meanwhile, in Washington DC,  the Federal Aviation Administration will brief lawmakers on its oversight of Boeing’s

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