Boeing told neither Southwest Airlines, the biggest 737 MAX customer, nor the Federal Aviation Administration when it omitted an emergency alert system meant to tell pilots when sensors are malfunctioning in newer models of the plane.
According to a Wall Street Journal report, the alert told pilots when a sensor was misreading issues with the pitch of the plane’s nose, a malfunction directly linked to the two deadly crashes a few months back.
Southwest officials reportedly did not know about the lack of warning system until more than a year after the planes starting being flown in 2017, since Boeing did not update them that the newer models omitted the feature. Even the airline’s manuals contained the erroneous information.
Wanton criminal behavior on Boeing’s part. Every callous, greedy executive who was aware of this should be jailed.
For 70 years, Boeing has had a reputation for building the highest-quality aircraft. They’ve managed to trash that in just a few years. And, if the company survives, it will find that it is going to take decades to get the reputation back.
Also too, that wasn’t Hans Delbruck’s brain was it?
Dig deeper into Boeing’s relationship with the WH/Trump, maybe there’s something fishy.
frightening and damning article.