A US House report says FAA approval of the plane and Boeing’s design failures 'doomed' Lion Air and Ethiopian Airlines flights.
A US House investigative report into two fatal Lion Air and Ethiopian Airlines crashes on a Boeing 737 Max faulted the Federal Aviation Administration’s approval of the plane and Boeing’s design failures, saying the flights were “doomed.”
“The combination of these problems doomed the Lion Air and Ethiopian Airlines flights,” the panel said in the 13-page report. The committee has been probing the crash for almost a year and received hundreds of thousands of documents and interviewed key Boeing and FAA employees in its investigation. “While the FAA’s certification processes are well-established and have consistently produced safe aircraft designs, we are a learning agency and welcome the scrutiny,” the FAA said.
The US House panel also faulted Boeing for what it described as a “culture of concealment” for failing to disclose information to airline pilots about the 737 Max’s MCAS stall-prevention system linked to both crashes, and that a key angle-of-attack cockpit alert was “inoperable on the majority of the 737 Max fleet.”
Federal prosecutors aided by the FBI are reviewing the plane’s certification as are a grand jury and the Transportation Department inspector general’s office. Several independent reviews have also faulted Boeing’s design and called for improvements in how the FAA certifies new aeroplanes.
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