Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg will face tough questions from U.S. lawmakers regarding the crashes of two 737 MAX planes
) Chief Executive Dennis Muilenburg was pressed by U.S. lawmakers at a hearing on Tuesday over what the company knew about its MCAS stall-prevention system linked to two deadly crashes, and about delays in turning over internal 2016 messages that described erratic behavior of the software in a simulator.
Senator Roger Wicker, the committee chairman, questioned Muilenburg over the company’s delay in releasing internal messages, first published by Reuters. In those messages, a former test pilot described erratic behavior of a simulator version of the same software now linked to the deadly crashes, and also mentioned “Jedi-mind tricking” regulators over training requirements.Related Coverage
Boeing ran full-page advertisements in major newspapers expressing condolences to the families and loved ones of those killed in the crashes on Tuesday. Boeing Chief Executive Dennis Muilenburg testifies before a Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee hearing on “aviation safety” and the grounded 737 MAX after two deadly 737 MAX crashes killed 346 people, on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., October 29, 2019. REUTERS/Sarah Silbiger
Muilenburg will also testify before the U.S. House of Representatives Transportation and Infrastructure Committee on Wednesday. “When you knew the MCAS system was part of that Lion Air crash, why didn’t you act to correct it immediately instead of still withholding information about it and blaming the pilots?” Stumo said of Boeing.
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