Wednesday, September 16, 2020

House Report On Boeing 737 MAX

The US House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee has issued its report on the Boeing 737 MAX. As Gizmodo puts it: "  In short: It was a perfect storm of shit where everyone made deadly mistakes."

“The MAX crashes were not the result of a singular failure, technical mistake, or mismanaged event,” the new report, which was posted online Wednesday morning, reads.

“They were the horrific culmination of a series of faulty technical assumptions by Boeing’s engineers, a lack of transparency on the part of Boeing’s management, and grossly insufficient oversight by the FAA—the pernicious result of regulatory capture on the part of the FAA with respect to its responsibilities to perform robust oversight of Boeing and to ensure the safety of the flying public.”

The report, written by Democrats in the House, is the culmination of 18 months of investigation to identify the primary cause of the crashes. Early reports suggested that technical failures involving the Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System (MCAS) in the planes were to blame.

This will come as no surprise to anyone who was following aviation industry sources after the two crashes. 

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