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The nose of a Boeing Co. 737 MAX 9 jetliner sits during production at the company's
manufacturing facility in Renton, Washington.

Boeing jets in Ethiopia and Indonesia lacked two safety features in their cockpits
because the company charged extra to install them.
The features could have helped the pilots detect erroneous readings, which some
experts believe might be connected to the planes' failures, The New York Times
reports.
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planes, the paper said.

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Neither safety feature was mandated by the Federal Aviation

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Administration, but experts say it is key to flight safety.

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