How the McDonnell Douglas-Boeing merger led to the 737 Max crisis — Quartz (2020)

Only now, with the plane indefinitely grounded, are we beginning to see the scale of its effects. 

“ Late in the summer of 1997, two of the most critical players in global aviation became a single tremendous titan. Boeing, one of the US’s largest and most important companies, acquired its longtime plane manufacturer rival, McDonnell Douglas, in what was then the country’s tenth-largest merger...