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| Boeing staff texted about 737 Max issue in 2016 |
| 2019-10-20 |
| [BBC] Boeing employees exchanged instant messages about issues with the automated safety system on the 737 Max as it was being certified in 2016. In documents provided by Boeing to lawmakers, a pilot wrote that he had run into unexpected trouble during tests. He said he had "basically lied to the regulators [unknowingly]". The safety system has been tied to two deadly crashes that killed 346 people. An Ethiopian Airlines 737 Max crashed only minutes after take-off from Addis Ababa in March, killing all 157 people on board. The same type flown by the Indonesian airline Lion Air crashed into the sea only five months earlier in October 2018, shortly after taking off from Jakarta. That accident claimed the lives of 189 people The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) called the document "concerning" and said it was asking Boeing for an "immediate" explanation for the delay in turning over the documents, which Boeing provided to lawmakers ahead of hearings this month. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #3 Boeing is rotten , that is the only conclusion i can arrive after what i have read about what MCAS does, no new specific simulator training for that, significant changes in equipment not put into manual. Or is there some group sabotaging Boeing from inside or it has a severe organizational disease. I am also shocked that shareholders continue to support that rotten culture and the CEO and the guys around him continue there. |
| Posted by: Spanky Whuter1088 2019-10-20 21:27 |
| #2 So why did he text it and not report it? If that's the case he is culpable in the deaths. Boeing has a great ethics program that protects anyone raising a safety or ethics issue. If you file an ethics or safety violation concern your protected from firing or even layoffs. Your untouchable. I keep hearing this stuff from 3 or four years ago on this plane, why did they just text and not report??? |
| Posted by: 49 pan 2019-10-20 16:35 |
| #1 I have no idea why anyone smart enough to be a pilot would text that he had (even unwittingly) lied to government investigators. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2019-10-20 08:25 |