Grave doubts surround the recertification of the Boeing 737MAX

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Boeing and US aviation authority 'manipulated 737 Max tests' during recertification

Boeing (BA) officials “inappropriately coached” test pilots during recertification efforts to get the aircrafts back in the air, a US congressional report has concluded.

The report released on Friday by the Senate Commerce Committee raised questions about testing in 2020 of a key safety system known as MCAS tied to both fatal crashes, which prompted the planes to nosedive shortly after take-off.

It also said that the US aviation regulator, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and Boeing officials “had established a pre-determined outcome to reaffirm a long-held human factor assumption related to pilot reaction time.”

“It appears, in this instance, the FAA and Boeing were attempting to cover up important information that may have contributed to the 737 Max tragedies,” the committee said.

Boeing’s 737 Max planes were grounded in March 2019 following two deadly crashes that killed 346 people.

The planemaker said on Friday that it takes “seriously the committee’s findings and will continue to review the report in full.”

The Senate Commerce Committee report cited a whistle-blower who claimed that Boeing officials prompted test pilots to use a particular control immediately before an exercise.


https://finance.yahoo.com/news/boei...-easa-airbus-american-airlines-100954890.html

The recertification should withdrawn immediately pending Congressional investigation.

You can't just rubber-stamp a proven death-trap because your crooked president says it's OK on his way out.

 

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Boeing 737-8 Max: Air Canada jet shuts down an engine and diverts after mechanical issue
Emergency signal sent from Montreal-bound plane carrying three crew before the plane was rerouted to Arizona

An Air Canada Boeing Co 737-8 Max en route between Arizona and Montreal with three crew members onboard suffered an engine issue that forced the crew to divert the aircraft to Tucson, Arizona, the airline says.

Shortly after the take-off, the pilots received an “engine indication” and “decided to shut down one engine”, an Air Canada spokesman said on Friday.

“The aircraft then diverted to Tucson, where it landed normally and remains.”

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news...-an-engine-and-diverts-after-mechanical-issue

I hope that it's mandatory for the aircraft type to be prominently displayed in flight advertising and on tickets. Getting the public into this aircraft by stealth should be criminal.

 

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From January. What's changed ?

Corporations Would Literally Kill You to Turn a Profit

Coca-Cola killed trade unionists in Latin America. General Motors built vehicles known to catch fire. Tobacco companies suppressed cancer research. And Boeing knew that its planes were dangerous. Corporations don't care if they kill people — as long as it's profitable.

Boeing’s dirty laundry was aired this month when the company released over a hundred pages of emails and instant messages exchanged by employees of the aerospace company to congressional investigators. The communications offered a grim snapshot of Boeing corporate culture — high-level employees insulting the intelligence of FAA officials, discussing ways to mislead aviation regulators, lamenting their own moral turpitude.

Lawmakers professed shock at the documents, calling them “astonishing and appalling” and “incredibly damning.” House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure chair Peter DeFazio said the emails “paint a deeply disturbing picture of the lengths Boeing was apparently willing to go in order to evade scrutiny from regulators, flight crews, and the flying public.”

https://jacobinmag.com/2020/01/corp...K6T4oKO1JXrUgZ13Ir6jsvfDHnd_rUkxoZ8U4TtFGphRQ

 

[Jack]

Why do you hate the Military-Industrial Complex ... and those that invest?

 

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Rhetorical questions are always the dumbest.

 

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Grave doubts surround the recertification of the Boeing 737MAX

Better take a close look at the rest of the fleet, boys.

Two people injured in Netherlands as ANOTHER Boeing jet rains down debris due to engine fire (PHOTO)

Dutch authorities are investigating after a Boeing cargo plane began shedding metal parts shortly after takeoff. The incident coincided with a similar debris-dump by a Boeing aircraft flying near Denver, Colorado.

One of the Boeing 747-400’s engines reportedly caught fire after the plane departed from Maastricht-Aachen airport on Saturday. According to airport officials, the plane then began to “lose” debris as it flew over a residential area near the airport.


https://www.rt.com/news/516212-boeing-engine-problems-maastricht/

 

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Haw, haw..........................haw.

 

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US watchdog will review FAA decision to unground Boeing 737 MAX

The US Transportation Department's inspector general said on Tuesday THAT he will audit the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) decision in November to unground the Boeing 737 MAX and other agency decisions.
The 737 MAX was grounded in March 2019 after two fatal crashes in five months killed 346 people. The new audit will examine the FAA’s actions following the two accidents, including the FAA’s risk assessments, the 2019 grounding of the aircraft, and "its subsequent recertification in November 2020," the inspector general's office said. Boeing and the FAA did not immediately comment.

https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news...aa-decision-to-unground-boeing-737-max-665811

The recertification stank. An inquiry is overdue.

Buy more stock, maggot.


Haw, haw.................................haw.

 

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Boeing to pay $200m to settle charges it misled investors over 737 Max crashes
Company and former CEO made misleading statements about the jets involved in two crashes that killed 346 people

Boeing and its former chief executive have settled an investigation by the US’s top financial regulator into allegedly misleading statements the planemaker and its then boss made about its 737 Max jets, involved in two deadly crashes in Indonesia and Ethiopia.

Boeing will pay $200m to settle charges that it misled investors and the former Boeing chief Dennis Muilenburg has agreed to pay $1m.

“In times of crisis and tragedy, it is especially important that public companies and executives provide full, fair, and truthful disclosures to the markets. The Boeing Company and its former CEO, Dennis Muilenburg, failed in this most basic obligation,” the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) chair, Gary Gensler, said.

The two fatal 737 Max jets took 346 people’s lives, led to the grounding of the Max fleet and investigations around the world.

The SEC has been investigating statements made by the company and by its former chief executive. Boeing investors lost billions after the crashes and the SEC is tasked with enforcing rules that force companies to disclose information that could affect their share price.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/sep/22/boeing-settlement-737-max-crashes

' 200 mil ' ? A slap on the wrist. It's an utter disgrace that these incompetent and mendacious assholes have gotten away with killing 346 people.