An FAA regulator who helped certify the 737 Max said she felt “bullied” by Boeing’s ex-chief technical pilot Mark Forkner as his company pushed for lower...
Stacey Klein, who headed the FAA unit to determine pilot training on the 737 Max, testified that Mark Forkner would ‘raise his voice’ and slam his hands on the table during meetings.5:08 PM on Mar 21, 2022 CDT
Forkner, who led the Max testing team, is being tried in U.S. District Court in Fort Worth on four counts of wire fraud because of documents sent from Boeing to the two of the plane’s biggest customers, Dallas-based Southwest Airlines and Fort Worth-based American Airlines. Each charge carries up to 20 years in prison.
The Fort Worth trial centers on whether Forkner lied to air carriers such as Fort Worth-based American Airlines and Dallas-based Southwest Airlines and the FAA, downplaying the effects of the maneuvering software so that it wouldn’t require extra training for pilots — training that would have triggered penalties of up to $1 million per airplane purchase for Boeing.
Federal prosecutors led off their case Monday by calling U.S. Department of Transportation investigator Kent Byers to verify emails and messages between Forkner and employees at Boeing that said he “lied to regulators .” They want to establish that Forkner knew about critical changes to the MCAS software as regulators were trying to determine pilot training standards.
Forkner’s team is also arguing that he’s being made into a scapegoat by the U.S. government, who have only produced a handful of incendiary communications out of more than 15 million total documents procured by investigators. Boeing was trying to convince the FAA that the 737 Max was only slightly different than previous generations of the popular 737 jets, which the manufacturer has been making since the late 1960s.
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