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'Damning' Boeing documents show employees mocked US regulators

Newly released Boeing documents show messages between employees mocking US aviation regulators.

Boeing's 737 MAX plane is "designed by clowns who in turn are supervised by monkeys", a company employee wrote in one of a trove of newly published internal messages.

The communications were released on Thursday by Boeing, whose 737 MAX plane was involved in two crashes that killed a total of 346 people in late 2018 and early 2019.

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