Boeing CEO walks out of presser as reporters pepper him with questions over deadly 737 MAX crashes
Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg at a news conference at the annual shareholder meeting in Chicago, Illinois, US on April 29, 2019.
"As in most accidents, there are a chain of events that occurred," he said, referring to the Lion Air crash on October 29 and the March 10 crash of an Ethiopian Airlines MAX. "It's not correct to attribute that to any single item." Boeing said the feature only worked if airlines bought a related one that's optional, and in any case the plane could fly safely without it.
Rescuers work at the scene of an Ethiopian Airlines flight crash near Bishoftu, or Debre Zeit, south of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Monday, March 11, 2019. Boeing has conceded that in both accidents, MCAS was triggered by faulty readings from a single sensor and pushed the planes' noses down. Besides the software update, Boeing will present the FAA with a plan for training pilots on changes to MCAS.
Dennis Tajer, a 737 pilot and union spokesman, said Boeing and the FAA must require more training rather than leaving the option to airlines.
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