Boeing's CEO met with families of 737 Max crash victims after his Senate testimony. Here's what happened behind closed doors.

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• Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg met with family members of 737 Max crash victims on Tuesday.
• The meeting came after Muilenburg testified in front of the Senate Commerce Committee. He'll also appear before the House committee on transportation on Wednesday.
• Business Insider spoke with family members who were in the closed-door meeting. They said that the meeting, at times "tense" and "emotional," covered a range of topics including Boeing's efforts to fix the troubled system that led to the two crashes.
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Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg met on Tuesday with more than a dozen family members of victims killed in the crash of Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302, the second of two fatal 737 Max crashes that led to a worldwide grounding of the plane type.

The meeting between the family members — who have largely assumed roles as aviation safety advocates in the wake of the crash — and Muilenburg came after the executive spent more than two hours testifying in front of a Senate Commerce Committee hearing. 

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