The revelation is likely to increase scrutiny on the manufacturer in the wake of crashes in Indonesia and Ethiopia.
Grounded Southwest Airlines Boeing 737 Max 8 aircraft are shown parked in Victorville, Calif., on March 26. By Tim Elfrink Tim Elfrink Editor of the Morning Mix Email Bio Follow April 30 at 3:30 AM Boeing’s 737 Max fleet was supposed to have a standard cockpit alert that would warn pilots when sensors outside the plane were feeding in incongruous data, a problem that contributed to crashes in Indonesia and Ethiopia that killed 346 passengers and crew members.
The revelation is likely to add more regulatory scrutiny to Boeing as it tries to fix the software implicated in the crashes and gain the approval it needs from the Federal Aviation Administration to end a global grounding of its signature passenger aircraft.The alert in question is meant to warn pilots if the plane is being fed faulty data from angle-of-attack sensors, which measure the pitch of the plane’s nose. In both the Lion Air crash in Indonesia on Oct.
“The disagree alert was tied or linked into the angle of attack indicator, which is an optional feature on the MAX. Unless an airline opted for the angle of attack indicator, the disagree alert was not operable,” the company said.
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