“Boeing and the FAA had already settled on a way to address the likely cause of the Lion Air crash. And they were well on their way to implementing it when the Ethiopian plane went down.” Wired: Boeing plans to fix the 737 max jet with a software update.

+ Software has been flying planes for a long time and air travel has been getting safer. But when bad things happen and software is to blame, it feels wrong. The Atlantic: The FAA Rigorously Tested the Boeing 737’s Software. So how did a problem slip through?