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Automation in planes — taking control of flight systems from pilots and putting it in the hands of machines — has steadily increased in recent decades. Two crashes involving Boeing's 737 Max that killed 346 people were both attributed largely to MCAS, the plane's automated system designed to keep it level in the sky. Business Insider spoke with aviation experts and former plane-safety officials...

Boeing announced on Monday that David Calhoun would become the aerospace company's CEO and president effective January 13 after the firing of former CEO Dennis Muilenburg. Calhoun had been the chairman of Boeing's board of directors, on which he had served since 2009, and was a senior managing director at Blackstone, leading that firm's private-equity-portfolio-operations division. Before working at Blackstone, Calhoun was the CEO...