Paul Njoroge brought pictures of four coffins instead of the faces of his wife, Caroline, and their children, Ryan, Kelli, and Rubi. Muilenburg knew the plane was flawed, Njoroge told him, and still he blamed foreign pilots; he hadn’t seen the victims in Ethiopia and Indonesia as people just like his own children. “They’re not human beings to you,” Njoroge said, “so you can only see their coffins.”

