, Scott Forkner appears to be discussing a session on a flight simulator for the 737 MAX, which was then undergoing testing leading toward safety certification by the FAA. He tells Patrik Gustavsson, who succeeded him as chief technical pilot on the program, that the plane was flying strangely in the simulator, with a flight control system called the maneuvering characteristics augmentation system, or MCAS, activating at a low speed. “It’s running rampant in the sim on me,” Forkner texts.
In their text exchange, the pilots appear to discuss that an update would have to be made to the safety assessment documents Boeing submitted to the FAA describing the system. Gustavsson writes, “Oh great, we’ll have to update the speed trim descritption [sic] …”The text messages “unquestionably raise the stakes for Forkner and Boeing” in the criminal probe being conducted by the U.S.
Mark Dombroff, an aviation attorney at Fox Rothschild, cautions not to jump to conclusions over the text messages. In this instance, and about the case in general, he says, “I think there’s an awful lot less known than is known.”
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