, Boeing said in a legal document that large, upgraded 737s "cannot be used at what are referred to as 'high/hot' airports."
. The preliminary report on the disaster said the plane's anti-stall system pushed the nose of the plane down less than two minutes into the flight because of a malfunctioning sensor. The pilots struggled to control the plane as it hurtled toward the ground at 575 miles per hour.
Documents in the trade case referred to at least 16 US airports considered "high and hot" and therefore unsuitable for the Max 8, though the names of those facilities weren't made public. Asked during a trade commission hearing to specify which airports, an expert witness for Boeing replied that "sometimes Denver would qualify as that." The expert, Jerry Nickelsburg, an adjunct economics professor at UCLA, added that "Mexico City certainly qualifies as that.
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