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Tuesday

A United Airlines plane takes off over another plane on the runway at San Francisco International Airport last year. United Airlines has announced a new order of 270 narrow-bodied planes from Boeing and Airbus. Jeff Chiu/AP hide caption

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Friday

Boeing said Friday that some of its 737 Max planes may have an electrical problem, leading airlines to ground dozens of the jets. An American Airlines flight on a Boeing 737 Max is seen here in December in Miami. Joe Raedle/Getty Images hide caption

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Friday

Rescuers work at the scene of an Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 Max that crashed near Bishoftu, or Debre Zeit, south of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, in March 2019. Mulugeta Ayene/AP hide caption

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Boeing To Pay $2.5 Billion Settlement Over Deadly 737 Max Crashes

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Saturday

A Boeing 737 Max lands earlier this month at an airport in Porto Alegre, Brazil. On Friday, the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation released its probe into what went wrong with the airliner after it was involved in multiple deadly crashes. Silvio Avila/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

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Wednesday

A Boeing 737 Max jet, piloted by Federal Aviation Administration chief Steve Dickson, flies past parked Boeing jets as it prepares to land at Boeing Field following a test flight in September. Elaine Thompson/AP hide caption

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Tuesday

A Boeing 737 MAX jet, piloted by Federal Aviation Administration chief Stephen Dickson, prepares to land at Boeing Field following a test flight late September in Seattle. Elaine Thompson/AP hide caption

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Wednesday

Wednesday

A Boeing 737 Max heads to a landing past grounded Max jets at Seattle's Boeing Field after a test flight in June. It was the first of three days of recertification test flights that mark a step toward returning the aircraft to passenger service. Elaine Thompson/AP hide caption

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Congressional Inquiry Faults Boeing And FAA Failures For Deadly 737 Max Plane Crashes

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Tuesday

A Boeing 737 Max aircraft lands following a FAA re-certification flight on June 29, 2020 in Seattle, Wash. The 737 MAX has been grounded for commercial flights since March 2019 following two crashes. Stephen Brashear/Getty Images hide caption

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Tuesday

Some of the grounded Boeing 737 MAX airplanes are seen parked in Moses Lake, Wash., in October 2019. David Ryder/Getty Images hide caption

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Boeing 737 Max May Stay Grounded Into Summer

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Thursday

Boeing 737 Max aircraft operated by Southwest Airlines crowd the tarmac of the airport in Victorville, Calif., after the Federal Aviation Administration grounded the planes last year. Mark Ralston/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

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Thursday

Grounded Boeing 737 Max airplanes crowd a parking area in Seattle in June. Elaine Thompson/AP hide caption

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Boeing Employees Mocked FAA In Internal Messages Before 737 Max Disasters

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