Leaders The aircraft industry Plane truths The crash of Ethiopian Airlines flight ET302 shows why a 1_______ age for the world’s aircraft duopoly may be over. When a Boeing 737 MAX 8 2_______ near Addis Ababa after 3_______ on March10th,157 people lost their lives. It did not take long for the human 4_______ to raise questions about what went wrong. That has fed a 5_______ of trust in Boeing and in the FAA, the American regulator which, even as its counterparts 6_______ the MAX 8, left it flying for three days before President Donald Trump stepped in, 7_______ all MAX planes. Mr. Trump 8_______ that Boeing was “an 9_______ company”. In fact the crash is a warning. After a 20-year boom, one of the West’s most 10_______ industries faces a difficult future. The MAX 8 is one of Boeing’s most 11_______ models. Until this week it has been a 12_______ triumph, with 370 in 13_______ and 4,700 more on 14_______ . The 737 series makes up a third of Boeing’s 15_______ and most of its order book. That performance caps an extraordinary two 16_______ for the Boeing and Airbus duopoly, as a growing global middle class has taken to the air. Over 21,000 aircraft are in use; a new plane is 17_______ every five hours. Boeing has 18_______ down its supply chain and Airbus has 19_______ its independence from European governments. That has led to a shareholder bonanza. Their 20_______ market value of $310bn is six times bigger than in 2000. And their overall safety record has been good, with one fatal accident per 2.5m flights last year.