In newly released text messages from 2016, a top Boeing 737 MAX test pilot tells...
SEATTLE - In newly released text messages from 2016, a top Boeing 737 MAX test pilot tells a colleague that the jet’s MCAS flight control system - the same one linked to two fatal crashes - was “running rampant in the on me.”
Such calibration problems may have contributed in some way to Mark Forkner’s observations and conclusions of MCAS’ behavior, the pilot, and a second former Boeing engineering employee, Rick Ludtke, said. The Nov. 16, 2016 conversation took place four months before the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration certified the MAX, the latest iteration of Boeing’s 737 aircraft, and two years before deadly crashes in Indonesia and Ethiopia killed 346 people.
“But there are still some real fundamental issues that they claim they’re aware of,” Forkner said, likely referring to the manufacturer.Forkner’s lawyer David Gerger told Reuters: “The simulator was not reading right and had to be fixed to fly like the real plane.” Boeing has said MCAS only operates when the flaps are retracted, so it would be unusual that Gustavsson would have experienced the same behavior on approach, with flaps extended, the former Boeing employees said.
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