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Congress slams ‘fundamentally flawed’ Boeing 737 MAX & ‘grossly insufficient’ FAA in scathing report
6 Mar, 2020 19:16
Boeing’s 737 MAX aircraft was doomed by the manufacturer’s “culture of concealment” that prioritized cost-cutting over safety, while the Federal Aviation Administration’s poor judgment sealed its fate, the US House has concluded.
A software glitch that should have been discovered and repaired instead shipped by default with all new 737 MAX planes, resulting in a pair of horrific crashes that killed a total of 346 people and forced the grounding of 737 MAX planes worldwide. The error had been concealed by Boeing executives and ignored by FAA regulators, the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee found in its report delivered on Friday – just days before the anniversary of the first of the two crashes.
Harsh preliminary report from Congress faults Boeing, FAA over 737 MAX crashes: "Efforts to obfuscate information," an automated system that "violated Boeing’s own internal design guidelines," and more https://t.co/YS8dkOw1QS via @seattletimes
— Rami Grunbaum (@rgrunbaum) March 6, 2020
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