Title: Boeing 737 Indonesia plane crash suspected: Sriwijaya Air what we know
Headings: Indonesia flight feared to have crashed: What we know about Sriwijaya Air and the Boeing 737-500
Indonesia flight feared to have crashed: What we know about Sriwijaya Air and the Boeing 737-500
What is Sriwijaya Air?
Was the plane a Boeing 737 Max?
The plane was 26 years old. Isn't that ancient?

Content: The plane was 26 years old and was previously in the fleet of Continental Airlines and, later, merger partner United Airlines, according to the website. Boeing has had a bruising couple of years following two crashes of the Boeing 737 Max, which killed 376 people. The plane was grounded by the Federal Aviation Administration and other aviation regulatory authorities in March 2019 and only recently certified to fly again. This week, Boeing settled criminal charges brought by the U.S. Department of Justice for defrauding the FAA. "Boeing’s employees chose the path of profit over candor by concealing material information from the FAA concerning the operation of its 737 Max airplane and engaging in an effort to cover up their deception," the DOJ said. Boeing will pay more than $2.5 billion, including a penalty of $243.6 million, compensation payments to 737 Max airline customers of $1.77 billion and a $500 million fund for the victim's beneficiaries. The plane in the Sriwijaya crash does not have the software that was at the center of the Max crashes. Boeing added software to the plane's flight computer that would work in the background so the Max would feel to pilots like previous versions of the 737. It was called the Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System, or MCAS, and it proved to have serious flaws. In both the crashes, pilots wrestled to keep their aircraft aloft as MCAS repeatedly pushed the nose down.