Investigators singled out the role of the MCAS in the fatal crashes of MAX planes flown by Indonesia's Lion Air on October 29, 2018 and Ethiopian Airlines on March 10, 2019."I want to stress the importance of holding firm that there will not be any type of simulator training required," one Boeing employee messaged a colleague on March 28, 2017, a few months before the MAX received federal certification.
"Would you put your family on a MAX simulator-trained aircraft? I wouldn't," said a message sent in February 2018, eight months before the first crash.Two other employees said they were concerned about the impact on Boeing's image at a time, they said, when the company's leaders seemed obsessed with the idea of gaining ground on Airbus's narrow-body A320neo.
"This is a joke," an employee wrote in September 2016, in a reference to the MAX."This airplane is ridiculous."And yet for decades Boeing was seen as representing the very best in aerospace engineering and design. It developed the 747, nicknamed the"queen of the skies," and contributed to the Apollo programme that sent man to the moon.In June 2018, one employee messaged his own analysis of the problem:"It's systemic. It's culture.
In a message to staff sent Friday and seen by AFP, he added,"The tone and language of the messages are inappropriate, particularly when used in discussion of such important matters."
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