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Join Wundry Plus in the Wundery app or on Apple Podcasts. Wonder. It's late in the evening of July 31st, 2019 in Sheffield, Massachusetts.

Nadia Milleron and her 19-year-old son Torstumo are sitting at their kitchen table staring at a video

playing on Milleron's laptop.

It's a recording of the Senate's Federal Aviation Oversight hearing which took place earlier that day.

Four months ago, Miloron's 24-year-old daughter, Samy Astoumo, died on board a Boeing 737

Max-8 which crashed in Ethiopia shortly after takeoff.

The crash was attributed to the faulty activation of a piece of software called the

maneuvering characteristics augmentation system or MCAS. It's the same error that caused another Max8 to crash off the coast of

Indonesia just a few months earlier in October of 2019.

In the initial weeks after Samia's death, Milleron sank into a deep depression.

There were days when she couldn't get out of bed, but the more she learns about the design

and certification of the 737 Max 8, the more that depression

has turned to anger.

Miloran now believes that both Boeing and the FAA demonstrated clear negligence in the

handling of this new plane, especially in the aftermath of the first Lion Air

accident. She thinks the Max should have been grounded the moment they realized the MCAS software was malfunctioning

And she wants someone to explain why her daughter was allowed to border plane that was known to have a catastrophic design flaw.

So when Milleron found out that several high-ranking administrators in the FAA were scheduled

to testify in front of the Senate Subcommittee on Transportation, she needed to watch. And during this testimony, for more than an hour,

FAA officials dodge and weave answering the senator's questions with bureaucratic jargon.

It would be boring if it wasn't so infuriating.

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