Boeing Withheld Information on 737 Model From Pilots: Report
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Boeing held back information about possible malfunctions with the new
flight-control feature that's believed to have played a role in the
Lion Air jet crash that killed 189 people in Indonesia last month, The
Wall Street Journal reports. FAA officials and safety experts involved
in the investigation told the Journal that the automated
stall-prevention system on the Boeing 737 MAX 8 and MAX 9 models can
kick in and send a plane into a steep dive even if pilots are manually
flying the aircraft. Investigators are still working to determine if
that is what caused the Lion Air flight out of Jakarta to plunge into
the Java Sea on Oct. 29. Boeing warned airlines about that risk in a
the latest models for U.S. airlines were reportedly left in the dark
pretty asinine for them to put a system on an airplane and not tell
the pilots who are operating the airplane, especially when it deals
committee for the Allied Pilots Association, told the Journal. An
unnamed high-level Boeing official quoted in the report said the
company had decided to leave out certain details about the new models
so as not to overwhelm average pilots with more information than they
would need. Boeing has yet to comment on the claims but said the
Air crash.
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