Boeing will plead guilty to a criminal fraud charge stemming from two crashes of 737 Max 8 jetliners that killed 346 people https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/boeing-plea-deal-1.7256889 #JT610 #ET302 #B737MAX8 #MCAS #aviation
Boeing to plead guilty to criminal fraud, pay $243M US fine in proposed deal over fatal crashes | CBC News

Boeing will plead guilty to a criminal fraud charge stemming from two crashes of 737 Max jetliners that killed 346 people, including several Canadians, after the U.S. government determined the company violated an agreement that had protected it from prosecution.

CBC
«The beginning of this report quoted Harry Stonecipher, the Chief Executive Officer of McDonnell Douglas who became the President and Chief Operating Officer of Boeing, who in 2004 told the Chicago Tribune: “When people say I changed the culture of Boeing, that was the intent, so it’s run like a business rather than a great engineering firm.”

...Boeing has gone from being a great engineering company to being a big business focused on financial success. Continuing on the same path it followed with the 737 MAX, where safety was sacrificed to production pressures, exposes the company to potentially repeating those mistakes...

Keith Leverkuhn, the former senior-most official on Boeing’s 737 MAX program ... appeared unable or unwilling to either take responsibility for any of the problems that occurred on the MAX program or to even acknowledge that any problems existed at all...

Indeed, producing a [regulatory] compliant aircraft that proved unsafe should have been an immediate wake-up call to both Boeing and the FAA that the current regulatory system that certified the MAX is broken. Unfortunately, serious questions remain as to whether Boeing and the FAA have fully and correctly learned the lessons from the MAX failures.»

http://avherald.com/h?article=4bf90724/0014

#Boeing #737MAX #FAA #LionAir #EthiopianAirlines #JT610 #ET302

- No, being "grounded" does not mean the 737 MAX is banned from flying for good. The 737 MAX planes are prevented to fly until the parties calling - or Boeing - finished with their investigation.

- No, not *all* 737s are grounded. Just the new 737 MAX 8 planes, which has the catastrophic flaw with the MCAS, which caused the #JT610 and #ET302 accidents.

The 737 NG planes and 737 Classic planes are all unaffected.

#nt

’Zup, World?

The daily chronicle of what's important (and not) in my world wide web by Neny Isharyanti

♲ @[email protected]: Dear, brother Karim. I remember your comment in Vienna, in 2014: 'I am not a politician, I am a technician.' You was a young, vibrant mind. The African diaspora in Europe lost one of its leaders today. You left us too soon, and in hurts so much! #EthiopianAirlines #RIP #ET302 https://loadaverage.org/attachment/5083693