Boeing's CEO Dennis Muilenburg faces two congressional hearings this week over the 737 Max.
The first hearing, held by the Senate Commerce Committee, is set for Tuesday morning, the anniversary of Lion Air Flight 610 crash. The near brand-new 737 Max went down shortly after takeoff, killing all 157 on board. Another new 737 Max, operated by Ethiopian Airlines, crashed at a similar stage in flight in March. All 189 people on that flight were killed.
"You cannot call a question as not particularly smart. You have to answer the questions," Munoz told reporters in Chicago last week. "You have to face the facts and the fact of the matter is 346 people died and that is a big impact on anyone." Boeing has been criticized by safety experts for underestimating the stress that multiple cockpit warnings put on pilots and hurt their ability to regain control of the plane. A flight-control program, known as MCAS, malfunctioned and was implicated in both crashes. A final report on the Lion Air flight, which was released Friday, faulted Boeing and the FAA's approval of the plane, as well as maintenance issues and pilot error in the two fatal crashes.
Boeing has made the system less powerful and added redundancies such as the use of data from a second sensor to avoid a repeat of the two crashes, but the FAA said last week that it would need several weeks before it lifts the flying ban on the Max.The release of internal Boeing messages earlier this month that showed one of its pilots had concerns about the MCAS system while in a simulator plunged Boeing into more turmoil.
Boeing expects regulators to allow the jet to fly again before the end of the year but airlines, including United, Air Canada, American, Southwest and Icelandair have taken the Max out of their schedules until early 2020.
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