late on sunday the us national transportation safety board or ntsb confirmed the part had been found by a member of the public in his backyard in portland. i am excited to announce that we have found the door plug. thank you, bob. i will not give you bob s last name, but bob contacted us at witness@ntsb.gov with two photos of the door plug and said he found it in his back yard. it s the latest controversy to affect the boeing 737 max airliner, since it was launched back in 2015. 189 people died when a 737 max operated by indonesia s lion air, crashed into the java sea in october 2018 13 minutes after take off. then in march 2019 a 737 max operated by ethiopian air went down 6 minutes after take off from addis abbaba killing all 157 people on board. the jet was grounded worldwide for 20 months. a us investigation found boeing had failed in its design and development of the max. us aviation regulators were also criticised. our business correspondent, theo leggett, has b
flagship aircraft. theo leggett, thank ou flagship aircraft. theo leggett, thank you very flagship aircraft. theo leggett, thank you very much flagship aircraft. theo leggett, thank you very much indeed. . a rocket has blasted off from cape canaveral in florida, carrying the first american spacecraft to attempt a moon landing for half a century. if all goes well, the peregrine1 robot developed by astrobotic would be the first ever soft lunar landing by a private company. launched in cooperation with nasa, it s the first of six commercial robot lander missions planned for this year, in which the nasa will be, in effect, a passenger, studying the moon s surface. earlier i spoke to planetary scientist dr hannah sargeant she said that a commercial lunar landing has been tried before. there has been a few different attempts. a private company attempted lunar mission. they didn t subtly learn so hopefully this will be the first successful soft landing
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we have another 737 max which has suffered a serious problem. it is a new aircraft, so that the idea that this might be lax maintenance isn t really there at the moment. the ntsb says it is not focusing on design issues, which takes the focus onto production and how the door was installed. that is stuff that has been done by boeing and its supplier, so it does look as though at some stage in that process there has been an error. the question, is that error on the part of boeing or its suppliereither way, what does that due to the 737 max brand? and what extra regulatory interference in everyday operations is going come in? is the going to be more oversight because but that is why we are seeing the share price is dropping. don t forget, this company had to pay out some $20 billion in fines and compensation and so on after those two accidents. it cannot really afford more problems with its flagship aircraft.