Did you see the photos being held up behind Boeing's CEO as he testified in front of Congress today? They were of those who died in 737 Max crashes, held by family members of the victims.
The hearing was conducted on the first anniversary of the first crash — a nearly brand-new Lion Air 737 Max that went down in the Java Sea in Indonesia, killing all 189 aboard. An Ethiopian Airlines 737 Max crashed in March, less than five months later, killing all 157 people on board.
Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., said Boeing executives came to his office after the crashes and said they were the result of "pilot error." Blumenthal called the crashes "the result of a pattern of deliberate concealment" by Boeing. Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., the state where the 737 Max is produced, asked Muilenburg and the commercial airplane unit's chief engineer whether its safety assumptions and assessments were wrong."I do want to know that you are improving the safety culture," Cantwell said.At issue is the flight-control system known as MCAS that malfunctioned on both flights because it received erroneous data from a faulty sensor.
The FAA last week shut down the Florida maintenance facility that worked on one of the Lion Air sensors.Boeing has been highly criticized for its assumptions about the plane, includingto safely fly planes amid a flurry of cockpit alerts, which occurred on the Lion Air jet. Despite the brutal hearing, shares of Boeing added 2.4% to close at $348.93, a sign investors were relieved.
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