The Max crisis has already shifted how regulators certificate jets

The Boeing 737 Max crisis has already upended some aspects of aircraft certification, with regulators more closely reviewing new projects and shying away from rubber stamping decisions made by their foreign counterparts.

And more changes are forthcoming thanks to a late 2020 US law that aims to prevent the type of systemic failures that contributed to two 737 Max crashes.

Investigators determined that Boeing’s design of the Max’s Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System, which the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) green lit, was partly to blame for two crashes that killed 346 people.